ChatGPT: ‘By defining Jesus’ divinity as ontologically unique—“of one essence with the Father” (homoousios)—the Nicene Creed effectively invalidated the interpretation Jesus himself appeared to use in John 10:34–36, where he appealed to Psalm 82 to justify calling himself “Son of God.”
In that passage, Jesus defends himself not by saying, “I am divine in a way you are not,” but by invoking a scripture that extends divinity (or godlikeness) to others:
“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 consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?” (John 10:34–36)
This is not a claim to exclusive divinity. It’s a rabbinic argument: “If Scripture calls others gods, why object to me being called God’s Son?” The logic only works if there is some continuity between Jesus and the rest of humanity—particularly those “to whom the word of God came.”
But the Nicene Creed drew a firm line: Jesus is uniquely divine, and anyone else sharing in divinity must do so only by grace, not by nature. That undermines Jesus’ own scriptural argument and levels of shared divinity.’
