There's a lot of strange phrases in the Bible. It is an ancient book written in an ancient

language, but one phrase in particular is both very familiar sounding, and also when

you think about it, actually quite odd. This phrase is...

The Son of Man. If you're like me, you've heard this phrase many times, but don't actually

know what it means. And interestingly, Jesus never consciously used the phrase Messiah

to describe Himself. The one term he consistently used to describe himself was the Son of

a human, the Son of Man. I'm John Collins, and this is the Bible

Project Podcast. We've been walking through a series on the complex identity of God in

the Bible. How the biblical authors wrestle with a paradox of being able to relate to a

transcendent, unrelatable God. When God appears to us, how do we experience Him? And today

we're going to look at one way that happens in the Hebrew Scriptures, but the character

called the Son of Man. It's actually a dream that Daniel has about a figure called the

Ancient of Days and the Son of Man. It is arguably one of the most important Old Testament

texts to understand Jesus Himself. So what was Daniel's vision all about? And why did

Jesus identify with this character? All that and more on today's episode. Thanks for joining

us. Here we go.

All right, so we've been talking about God and God's identity. Is that a way to describe?

When I've been thinking about this, I've been thinking, oh, we're talking about God's

identity. Yes, I think so, because to say we're making a video about God, that could be

about something. Yeah, so much. We want the video to help bring clarity to is the identity,

the unique identity, which is, yeah, I guess in English, that's a way of talking about

the specific profile. Yeah, what does that mean to have an identity? I was wondering if

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