Why are Hebrews obsessed with the number one, be they Israelis or Arabs? Isn't Genesis clear that there are 3?

Question

How can one deny such sentences in Genesis as "let us create man in OUR image?" Or "in the beginning God's Spirit hovered over the waters in the darkness?" How can one pervert the New Testament into "proof" that Christ is One when he explicitly says only the Father is One?

Answer 1

Genesis was based on earlier polytheistic texts; the gods are speaking amongst themselves.


Edit: It is attributed to Moses for the same reason 2nd Peter is attributed to Peter, even though it was written in florid Greek 150 years after he died.

Moses was likely the compilation of several figures in early Jewish history, albeit one with a very bad sense of direction.

Answer 2

Just because there are various manifestations of G-d in the Bible, does not mean that each manifestation is to be regarded as separate and Unequal to G-d, but somehow one and the same as G-d, and that each manifestation of G-d is to be treated differently. The Hebrew Scriptures tells us that G-d is One.

Hear, O Israel: The Eternal is our G-d , the Eternal is one. [Deuteronomy 6:4]

Jews are taught that G-d is One, G-d is Indivisible, and this is found throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. Isaiah 44:6 tell us that, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no G-d ." When Isaiah tells us that G-d said, "I am the first," it means that G-d has no father. When Isaiah tells us that G-d said, "I am the last," it means that G-d has no literal son. And when Isaiah tells us that G-d said, "Besides me there is no G-d ," it means that G-d does not share being G-d with any other god, or demi-god, or semi-god, or persons.

Muslims also believe in only one G-d.

Answer 3

Actually, the "us" is the royal we.

Also, G-d was probably talking to the angels, who are also in His image, making it a we. Either way it's still only one. Genesis (and the whole of the Tanakh) explicitly says there is ONE G-d. Shma Yisrael Ad-nai Elokeinu Ad-nai Achad. Hear O Yisrael, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One

This question has been asked about 20 times, I think

Answer 4

Did you ever consider that when God said "let *us* create man in *our* image that he could have been talking to his son in his prehuman existence?

Read Proverbs 8:22-31 and tell me that Christ [as wisdom personified] was not right there.

The Scripture indicates that the Son was the very first creation and that is the very reason that he is referred to as the "only begotten son" as he was the only thing the Almighty God created by himself.

Proverbs 8:22-31 (New Living Translation)
22 “The Lord formed me from the beginning,
before he created anything else.
23 I was appointed in ages past,
at the very first, before the earth began.
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Colossians 1:15 (American Standard Version)
who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation

That pretty much settles it, doesn't it?

Answer 5

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one

Answer 6

Such shallow questions you come up with. Is this as deep as you get?

Answer 7

God is one. Read the opening of your first commandment.
"Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is one"
It's like the water molicule is one but it is made of three parts.
Two are of the same type. "My father and I are one"
The other is different "oxigen, breath of life, spitit"
Combined they are one water molicule "I am the living water"
But take away any one of the three and it is no longer water.
Take away any one of the three of the Trinity and it is no longer God.