Deification

[aron]

Originally Posted by aron

Anyway, that helped me see the unique God of Israel yet understand how Christ and the Holy Spirit, or Great Angel, could be seen, operationally, as “God.” Look how many times in the OT the appearing spirit being is referred to as “an angel” and also as God. I can think of probably half-a-dozen, anyway. But God is still one, there on the throne.

Acts 7:35 "This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, 'Who made you ruler and judge?' He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

God appeared to Moses in Exodus, and an angel appeared to him according to Stephen. I see this happening repeatedly in the text. There appears to be some overlap, conceptually. A ministering, or messenger spirit, also called "God."