Looking at how Jesus used Psalm 82, it might be argued that the psalm does not prove this, but it is implicit, it seems to me, in how Jesus used the psalm, that the gods mentioned are those who are a council over which the Most High presides, and that these are the sons of God also referred to in Job and Genesis, and it is implicit in Jesus’ teaching on this that he was one of these, a son of God, but who was most special because he was set apart by God to be sent into the world. Yes, the implied meaning is not explicit and is not proved, but it seems Jesus was happy to let that be understood as his implied meaning. Being set apart, implies set apart from those other sons of God. Being set apart from them also implies he was not condemned by God as they were. Better things are hoped for in Jesus’ case, hence God from heaven saying Jesus is His beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased. Hence Jesus is not only ‘A’ Son but ‘THE’ chosen one, although that phrase ‘chosen one’ is found elsewhere, not here in John or Psalm 82. (“This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!” Luke 9:35)
Here is the passage in John 10 where Jesus refers to Psalm 82.
“Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?” (John 10:34–36)
Psalm 82 in the KJV, which is public domain, says:
1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
However, Jesus made it clear in his teachings recorded in the Gospel of John that the kind of sonship relationship to God that matters is not biological, but rather one of behaviour and character appropriate for a son of God. He starts with the Jews saying they are children of Abraham. He emphasises that true children of Abraham would do the kinds of deeds Abraham did, in love and truthfulness, not in murder and lies. Murder and lies do not characterise children of Abraham but children of the devil, who is murderer and father of lies. He says that likewise his own sonship of God is seen in his doing deeds like God does. He cannot by convicted of sin, but lives as God taught him to live, Father teaching Son. He does as he sees his Father doing, who shows him what He, God, does. Yes, the Jews, Jesus admitted, were biologically descended from Abraham, but that is not the important thing. John the Baptist had likewise pointed this out to them, that they should not even start to say they are children of Abraham but they should repent of sin and produce behavioural fruit in keeping with that repentance. Jesus offered advice on how to do this. If they believed in him, they should then hold to his teachings, just as he in turn held to what His Father, God, taught him. As the teachings are kept a hold of, with belief in the teacher, the character and behaviour of the disciple starts to reflect the character and behaviour of the teacher. He has sonship to God in this way, and his believing disciples could have it too. It is provided in his sayings. Yes, biologically Jesus is born of a virgin, but that is not even something he mentioned, as is barely mentioned much at all in the writings of his New Testament apostles. It is sonship which comes from upbringing and learning which matters. The Father initiates the teaching, and the dutiful son becomes a true beloved pleasing son by being devoted to those teachings and acquiring the Father’s kinds of behaviour, judgments on things, ways of seeing and doing things, righteous love, truth, and character. Jesus went this way, and so can those who have sincere faith in him. None of us can have his virgin birth, but if we believe in him, we can have his God-taught ways, and goodness of fruits of character. That is sonship that matters. That is sonship which averts the condemnation in Psalm 82 of the council of gods who were called sons of God but did not feed the poor or grant them justice, and so were told their demise would be like the typical demise of mortal men. The true sonship that matters leads to a greater end: to eternal life with ultimately no such demise as the demise of these gods. That is what the beloved Son is sent by God to bring about, as light to the world. Indeed, his own death was not his ultimate end but rather resurrection and living forever, and it was a death which on a cross provided the sacrifice for the sins of the world.
See also https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa1dce3-d7e8-83eb-b87f-2bd9dfe480b8
