When God said " Us" when He created Man > who is "Us"??

Question

Let " Us" make man in Our Image> Who is Our? It says Our likeness??

Answer 1

The Hebrew word translated as "God" is "Elohim," which is a pleural word for "Gods." God was not referring to Himself and the angels; He was referring to all three parts of His Triune nature: Father, Word (the Son, Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.

There are a number of instances in the Hebrew Bible of God speaking to the other parts of His Trinity. Here are some examples:

1) There are instances in the Bible where God the Father speaks to God the Son (Jesus Christ, a.k.a. The Word). In Psalm 45:6-7, the writer states: "Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows." Notice that the word God is actually applied to two different Persons within these two verses. He is addressing God, and after addressing God, he says that another God had anointed the first God with the oil of gladness above "your" fellows. It should be noted that in this verse the first Elohim is being addressed. The second Elohim is the God of the first Elohim. Therefore, it is God’s God who has anointed Him with the oil of gladness. Another example may be found at Hosea 1:7.

2) Then there are Scriptural sources that reference ALL THREE Persons of the Trinity: Father, Son and Spirit:

Isaiah 42:1 "Behold, my [Father] servant [Son], whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit [Holy Spirit] upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles."

The first Person is the speaker, who is seen by the pronouns "my" and "I." The second Person is the speaker's "servant," the servant of Jehovah. And the third Person is the "Spirit" of God. Scripture repeatedly identifies Jesus Christ as God the Father's "Servant."

Isaiah 61:1 is a second example:

"The Spirit [person #1] of the Lord Jehovah [person # 2] is upon me [person # 3]; because Jehovah has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;…" Again, there are three individuals: the Lord Jehovah; the Spirit of Jehovah; and the speaker ("me"). We know from Luke 4:18 that the person referring to Himself as "Me" is Jesus Christ.

There is MUCH more proof of the Trinity in the Bible. However, this is not the forum for such an extensive discussion. If you want more information, send me a message through YA and I'd be happy to send it to you.

Peace.

Answer 2

Jews believe it is God, Hashem and the angels He created. This is what "us" means when God created man in His image and likeness.

Christians believe it is none other than The Father God, The Word, and The Holy Spirit.
"There are three that bear record in Heaven,
'The Father, The Word, and The Holy Spirit:
and these three are one God.' " 1 John 5:7 Original King James Version of the Bible, which was taken from the Hebrew and Greek text of the Bible.
"The Word" here became flesh, and the name given to "The Word" before His birth, was Yeshua(Messiah) Jesus !!
Other religions do not acknowledge the Bible to be a book of Truth.

Answer 3

God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made....14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God ('ĕlôhîym) created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

'ĕlôhîym - gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God;

Answer 4

My answer would be explained in the Trinitarian doctrine as taught by the Christian Church.

As St. Augustine said ("De Trinitas") - "The Father is eternal and eternally loves the Son. The Son is eternal and eternally loves the Father. The Holy Spirit is eternal, and is the love that proceeds from the Father and from the Son"

This might sound strange to the ears of a Jewish monotheist - but - the phrase "let us" is certainly in their own Torah...

When my Jewish friends tell me that that cannot be true, because "God is One" - I show them their own "Shema": The word translated from the Hebrew as "ONE" is not the NUMBER "one" - but means a "composite unity".

One must think that "Let us make man in OUR own image" is the earliest picture of the Holy Trinity in Scripture.

And we are indeed created in the Trinitarian Image: Mind (Father) Body (Son) and Spirit (Holy Ghost).

Answer 5

The first three verses of Genesis hold the clue. In those beginning verses is God the Father acting as Creator, God The Word speaking everything into existence and God The Spirit moving over the waters. All three aspects of The Trinity are right there.

Answer 6

The Trinity
The Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Answer 7

God the Father was talking to His son. Jesus was around (in heaven) long before He physically came to earth, and some people knew of this.

Daniel Chapter 3 (Old Testament)
24Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.

25He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Answer 8

I have no idea from where you got it.

In the Koran, God use the word "US" to refer to himself; in Arabic language rules; this mean the supremacy, even some human a king or a president for example use US to refer to themselves.

The bible was revealed in Aramaic and in the middle east; may be it has the same rule.

Answer 9

The Triune God.

God the Father,
Jesus Christ the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.

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Answer 10

God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost. The angels can not be accounted for because they are created being. They are merely spectator to the wonderful creation of God.