| | "'''Son of Man'''" is a common mistranslation, preferred by [[liberals]], which obscures Jesus's divinity. [[Jesus]] used an artful phrase to convey his divinity without committing the capital offense of blasphemy, which would have terminated His ministry before it completed. Notably, the [[Gospel of John]] does not use the phrase the same way as the other [[Gospels]] do.<ref>"The term, Son of man, is used by Jesus 80 times as a way to refer to himself (32 times in Matthew; 14 times in Mark; 26 times in Luke; and 10 times in a qualitatively different way from the Synoptic Gospels in John). ... | | "'''Son of Man'''" is a common mistranslation, preferred by [[liberals]], which obscures Jesus's divinity. [[Jesus]] used an artful phrase to convey his divinity without committing the capital offense of blasphemy, which would have terminated His ministry before it completed. Notably, the [[Gospel of John]] does not use the phrase the same way as the other [[Gospels]] do.<ref>"The term, Son of man, is used by Jesus 80 times as a way to refer to himself (32 times in Matthew; 14 times in Mark; 26 times in Luke; and 10 times in a qualitatively different way from the Synoptic Gospels in John). ... |
| − | The term occurs only five times in the rest of the New Testament outside the Gospels. In Acts 7:56, Stephen says that he sees the heaven open and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God; Hebrews 2:6 quotes Psalm 8:4 and applies the words to Jesus ...; and in Revelation 1:13-15 and 14:14 Jesus is 'One like a Son of man' (ὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου) and described in terms that evoke the imagery of Daniel 7 ...." [http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2305-08532017000300004]</ref> | + | The term occurs only five times in the rest of the New Testament outside the Gospels. In Acts 7:56, Stephen says that he sees the heaven open and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God; Hebrews 2:6 quotes Psalm 8:4 and applies the words to Jesus ...; and in Revelation 1:13-15 and 14:14 Jesus is 'One like a Son of man' (ὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου) and described in terms that evoke the imagery of Daniel 7 ...." [http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2305-08532017000300004]</ref> [[The Gospel of Luke]] says that Jesus "will be called the Son of the Most High."<ref>{{bibleref|Luke|1|32}} ([[ESV]])</ref> |
| | A better English translation which conveys the divinity would be "'''''The Son as man'''''."<ref>Other possible translations are "The Son, a human being," "The Son, a man," or "The Son became Man" (the latter would commit blasphemy, however, which Jesus needed to avoid at the outset of his ministry).</ref> In other words, '''''simply replace "of" with "as" to restore the intended implication of divinity''''', without committing blasphemy under the strict rules of the time. The versatility of "as" in modern English conveys the meaning of the awkward, unusual Greek phrase better than "of" does. | | A better English translation which conveys the divinity would be "'''''The Son as man'''''."<ref>Other possible translations are "The Son, a human being," "The Son, a man," or "The Son became Man" (the latter would commit blasphemy, however, which Jesus needed to avoid at the outset of his ministry).</ref> In other words, '''''simply replace "of" with "as" to restore the intended implication of divinity''''', without committing blasphemy under the strict rules of the time. The versatility of "as" in modern English conveys the meaning of the awkward, unusual Greek phrase better than "of" does. |