Psalm 2:7 - He wil be called the Son of God

 Here is the KJV version of the text:

"I will declare the decree that the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten thee."

This is yet another example of taking a single verse out of context to force a Christian view simply because it says "My son". The KJV emphasis by capitalizing "Thou" and "Son" gives emphasis that this is someone Divine. 

Of course, such a view ignores that verses such as in Exodus 4:22-23 and Deuteronomy 14:1 where the Jews are referred to as God's son (lower case, of course!). It's a poetic expression for "God's chosen", not a supernatural deity.

But if we read the next 2 verses, we see that this is not really about God choosing someone to be His representative, but choosing someone who will massacre the gentiles who have been abusing His chosen people:

Verses 8 and 9:

"Ask of Me, and I will give you the goyim as your inheritance, and the ends of the earth as your possession. You will break them with a rod of iron , you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

In other words, this song is about a militant warrior king who will kill, destroy, and dominate.

This is "My Son", not the Jesus character in the Christian text. Jesus certainly wasn't that character who was to begin his reign of terrorizing and massacring the goyim "on this day". meaning, from the very start.

One needs to keep in mind that many of these anonymous songs, which are not prophetic, but expressions of hope and fantasizing the end of their enemies, were likely written during the time of the Babylonian exile, where there are lots of claims that God will send a warrior leader to take retributional vengeance upon the Babylonians. We see a lot of these retributional fantasies in Psalms. 

One could better apply this to king Cyrus who defeated Babylon, with the exception that he too didn't massacre the Babylonian people, but simply annexed them. 

So, in short, this verse is not about "He will be called the Son of God", but "God will choose one to lead the Jews to take vengeance upon their enemies."

And Jesus never did that.

So the style of this claim is: taken out of context, forced meaning applied, doesn't apply to Jesus.

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