Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let US make man in OUR likeness: and let them have dominion ...
If not, than who is us and our?
2007-04-04 03:17:31 · 17 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Or is Genesis 1:27 the first of the bible contradictions?
2007-04-04 03:18:47 · update #1
Biblical archeology scholar, William Deaver, has just written a book titled something along the line "Did God Have a Wife?" Your quetion sounds as if He could very well have had a wife!
Jews consider God to have many "aspects." The shekinah is considered to be the feminine aspect of God.
It could also be that God was using the "Royal" we, or it could be that he was including the angels.
Does it really matter in the long run? The creation story is only an ancient myth, after all.
2007-04-04 06:16:45 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians claim that it is a reference to the trinity but that is incorrect. Some say that it is the royal use of "we" but that too is incorrect.
"Man has become as one of us"
A royal would not use "our" in this context unless it was meant to be plural.
Trinity worshippers try to use the claim that Jesus was there at the time of Creation, however we can know for a fact that this is not true because nobody before Jesus' birth had any knowlege of him. Jesus presence at the beginning of time was a one sentence assertion at the beginning of the Gospel of John. If there were in fact a Jesus with God, the term we would have been used throughout the Old Testament and that is not the case.
The truth is that there was a pantheon of Gods in the original creation story. El, the creator god and a host of other gods. El decided he would make man in the image of the gods. He gave man all of the powers of the gods but didn't give man knowledge of good and evil. That is why when man ate from the tree the Gods said "Man has become as one of us"
2007-04-04 10:42:53 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a reference to his Master worker and Only direct creation by God. See Proverbs 8:22-31, Col 1:15-17,Revelation 3:14. John 1:3, John 17:5
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2007-04-04 10:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by gem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is The Father
Eve Came Out Of Adam. God Caused Adam To Sleep, Then Took 2 of his Ribs And Closed The Flesh Over It And Made Eve
2007-04-04 10:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's a reference in the Old Testament to the Most Holy Trinity.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
There is no Mother God
Mary is the mother of God.
2007-04-04 10:23:18 · answer #5 · answered by carl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two plural nouns are applied to God: God and Lord, are almost always plural when applied to God. These two plural nouns (God - elohim, Lord - adonai) are the two most frequently used nouns of God in the Old Testament.
Three plural pronouns, (We, Us, Our) used 6 different times in four different passages: Gen 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8. Click here for detailed outline of these passages
Five plural verbs are applied to God: creates, makes, wanders, reveals, judges. In English, these plural verse do not indicate a plural persons, "God creates". But the plurality of Hebrew verbs follow the noun. This is not the case in English. This plurality of verbs associated with God, is most striking and unusual to those who read Hebrew.
Plural adjectives that describe God: "holy". Again, this is a function of Hebrew grammar that does not exist in English. The plurality of adjectives is tagged to the associated noun, which in this case is God. It is most unusual to have a plural adjective describing God.
Single verses that contain both singular and plural references to the same person
2007-04-04 10:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by anne p 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God, Christ, 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.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
2007-04-04 10:20:37 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Linder 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there are many ways of reading the cited verse.
some understand the "our" to simply be God speaking of Himself, the writers of genesis using the plural as a sign of respect.
others understand "our" to refer to the Christian trinity, or to a Mother Goddess in partnership with God.
2007-04-04 10:22:05 · answer #8 · answered by ayani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The father the son and the holy spirit...
The father and the son did not become ONE until Jesus resserrected!
Before then, he was referred to as His son...
Even before he entered the world through Mary.
Even in the old testament!
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2007-04-04 10:26:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Trinity. Yes Jesus and the Holy Spirit were in the Old Testament too.
2007-04-04 10:20:30 · answer #10 · answered by frosty 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋