The Hebrew word for God is Elohim, which is plural.
Rom 1:20 teaches that nature reveals the Godhead (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
All three were present and active in creation!
2006-10-13 08:08:39
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answer #1
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answered by TenJac 4
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Why I can’t believe in the royal we, idea to Genesis 1:26 and 3:22,
If Jehovah talked with the royal we or us, etc, why did He only do it only 4-5 times.
Why didn’t He or doesn’t He continue to do to so through out the bible.
Why didn’t He use the royal we at Gen. 1:29, 30 only 3 verses later, or Gen. 2:18, Gen. 3:11, 15
and through out the rest of the bible? Why at Isa. 6:8, does Jehovah say “Whom shall I send”?
Job 38:4-7 shows that the angels were existing at the creation of man, so Jehovah wasn’t alone and had many spirit creatures to talk to.
Instead, which sounds more real and truthful, that Jehovah was talking to someone who is His Master Worker, His Firstborn Son, His Faithful Witness, who is His image, His exact representation, OR He was talking to Himself. (Prov. 8:30; Heb. 1:3; Col 1:15)
Bible scholar Donald E. Gowan said “There is no support in the O[ld] T[estament] for most of the proposed explanations: the royal ‘we,’ the deliberative ‘we,’ the plural of fullness, or an indication of a plurality of persons in the Godhead.
Why does the word Elohim according to Strong’s Cyclopaedia, when it applies to Jehovah means Supreme God, not Gods? Even when this word is applied to Moses (Ex. 4:16 & 7:1) it doesn’t mean that there are 3 Moses, it doesn’t even mean there are 2 Moses.
(Side point when Jesus said if you see me you see the Father, it is because he is the image of God, the exact representation of his Father. When you see an image in a mirror you are seeing a representation, not the actual person. Col 1:15)
(Side point, According to my college dictionary, begotten means “to be born”, to be born means “brought into life or being” when was Jesus brought into life, when he came to life as a baby? No, as Jehovah’s Firstborn of creation Col. 1:15; Rev 3:14)
2006-10-13 18:54:06
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answer #2
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answered by TeeM 7
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In Ezeikiel it mentions that everything God makes is perfect, so long before the creation mentioned in Genesis Earth already existed and Genesis also mention that the Earth was formless. Another thing is that in the Gospel of John the first line says that in the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (which is Jesus).
2006-10-13 15:06:25
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answer #3
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answered by whackiejackies 3
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Whe God said "let us make man in our image" he was speaking to his Son Jesus. Jesus was the first of God's creations and after that all other things Jesus helped his Father to create. Jesus is the only spirit being that was created by God directly. In this way, he became God's only begotten Son.
Proverbs 8:22-31 shows how Jesus had a beginning--
"The LORD possessed me (Jesus) in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men."
In answer to your question regarding the third and fourth creative days--
God endowed the green parts of plants with a substance called “chlorophyll.” By means of this complex substance, light from the sun causes carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to react together to form sugars, producing as much as 150 billion tons of these around the earth each year, and at the same time releasing oxygen to renew the air. Plants use up these sugars in growing, converting them into the various kinds of food that we eat. Thus the energy that sustains the great variety of living things on earth all comes from this miraculous process involving sunlight, air and water, and the secret of this process is still unknown to man. On the “fourth day,” God went on “to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars.” (Genesis 1:14-19) However, had not God created these heavenly bodies earlier, “in the beginning”? Yes, he had. But please note that there is a difference between the verb “created” (Hebrew, bara′) at Genesis 1:1 and the verb ‘made’ (Hebrew, ‘asah) at Genesis 1:16. What apparently happened on the “fourth day” is that for the first time the outline of sun, moon and stars became quite visible from the surface of the earth, probably because of a clearing of the atmosphere. A radiant sun now served as “luminary” to brighten the day, bringing cheerful warmth. But what of the moon? Well, it has one of the darkest surfaces in the solar system, reflecting only 7 percent of the light it receives. Yet the moon’s size and distance from the earth (which make for adequate tides) are just right to result in the soft, pleasant light we enjoy at night. Surely God’s wisdom and love are evident in this “lesser luminary”!
2006-10-13 15:25:09
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answer #4
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answered by Micah 6
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"1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning." John 1:1,2
"14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14
This verses states and explain that the Word was Jesus and that He was there when creation was being created.
2006-10-13 15:07:47
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answer #5
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answered by G W 2
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John 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
2006-10-13 15:09:10
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answer #6
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answered by zero 3
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The Trinity==God, Jesus, Holy Spirit.
2006-10-13 15:04:03
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answered by Red neck 7
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Angels were created before us, not after. god was speaking to the angels inclusively. much as a teacher says to students, lets do this problem on the board. now its really the teacher doing the work, with input of students. perhaps that is a similiarity?
2006-10-13 15:07:21
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answered by Anonymous
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"Us" means the Trinity. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2006-10-13 15:08:10
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answer #9
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answered by seeya 2
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It is written of Jesus, “He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made…” And again, "16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Col 1)
2006-10-13 15:07:24
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answer #10
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answered by whitehorse456 5
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