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Divine beings mentioned in the Tanakh or Old Testament will be surprising to a lot of people when they read about them, and admittedly it was a shocker to us all when we discovered this information out ourselves. Not easy to rearrange your mind when you were taught one thing, but when you do see it, you reach a higher level of understanding, seeing the forest as the tree got cut down.
Many Pagans thought there was one supreme God that ruled other lower divinities, and we see this in Judaism as well. In the ancient world, people thought different things about God, not like we do today in thinking there is only one God. So it is very important to know this historical information when trying to understand certain Bible passages and contexts. Divinity contexts require the question "in what sense of God is implied," because God could mean different things.
God becomes a human in the Garden, taking an evening stroll. God is often mistaken as a human being like that in Pagan religions, divine Men are recorded in both groups. The Angel of Jehova is manifested as "Angelic Human" often times throughout the Tanakh.
Genesis chapter 2 we see divine beings having sex with humans, we best quote this one.
Genesis 6Amplified Bible (AMP)
6 Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.
Genesis 6:2 Sons of God has been interpreted as a reference to: fallen angels, the Nephilim Giants, and their offspring was said to be 1/2 divine and 1/2 human.
Genesis 6:4King James Version (KJV)
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Bible Scholars call this passage; strange, obscure, most difficult in the Hebrew Bible; atypical, puzzling and—spoken in a way understood only outside exegetical academia. Controversial in the MOST extreme way unto Christian theology. This section is best understood from the Hebrew Tanakh and Judaism of the ancient world.
Humans are often times called God in the Bible, like the present King of Israel is often times quoted as God, we see it appear in the Tanakh. Many Jews and people outside of the Bible often thought; Enoch was made divine because he was transfigured, an exaltation divinity. Many Jews thought Kings was adopted as Gods Sons, divine as in literally not metaphorically. At the time of Jesus, there were people thinking this way as well.
John 10:35- "Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came and the scripture cannot be broken then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?"
Notice Jesus is into the mind of the Jews, he must have known, he had them thinking about accounts in the Tanakh where men were exalted as divine. We today have a hard time understanding this, but those whom Jesus was addressing in this context surely knew.
New Living Translation
Isaiah 7:14 "All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means 'God is with us')."
This is one of the most abused verses in the Bible by theologians in their modern-day divinity mixup. This verse is addressing a Man in Isreal, a King that was raised up; when you keep reading the Book you can see this was a Man in the context, therefore we can see why Jesus spoke his passive statement in John. Common day Oneness Pentecostals and Trinitarians address this verse to Christ's deity in an attempt to hide the poly gods throughout the Tanakh and historical Jewish/Christian theology.
Poly Gods in Christian History.
Marcion of Sinope was dualistic, docetic, he taught a docetic view. Not really classified as Gnostic Marcion brought forth another Christology. He thought the God of the Old Testament was Evil and mean; the Demiurge. YHWH was another divinity, a lower case divinity than of Paul and Jesus of the New Testament. Jesus only seemed to be human, a phantasm or illusion, Christ was so divine in Marcionism; he could not be trapped into a flesh body of matter. Marcion had two Gods, one for the Tanakh and one in the New Testament.
Did you know Paul taught another Christology than most people think? Check out our Philippians 2 page
