Can someone explain this quote from the Book of Genesis in the Bible?

Question

So I was reading Genesis last night and I noticed that in the very begining when its talking about how "God man heaven and the earth" yadda yadda yah, theres a quote from God that says something along the lines of "I will make man in our image." The thing im courious about is that fact that he said OUR, rather than MY. I'm not sure which line it is exactly, but I know for sure he clearly says man will be made in our image. Who is he speaking to?? Wouldn't God have been the only being in existance in the very begining of time?

Answer 1

god is good..the earth is heaven..people are just duma$$es

Answer 2

Genesis 1: Verses 26 to 27

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

God did not say "I" will make man in our Image, God said "Let us" make man in our image.
This is the first clue of Trinity.
This is also the reason why there is:
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit.

God in name is an attribute and is Plural. Not Singular.
God Is The Trinity.
"And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased." (Luke 3:22)
See also
The Father is God:
Romans 1:7
The Son is God:
Hebrews 1:8
The Holy Spirit is God:
Acts 5:3-4
All three are named together:
Matthew 28:18-20
2 Corinthians 13:14
1st John 5: 7 to 8

Check it out. God Bless.....

Answer 3

Yes and no. From the very beginning yes. But this would include all three members of the Trinity. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The are three distinct beings, yet one person. This is a complex concept that is difficult to explain and which we cannot fully understand as humans. We will leave this for another question.

Also, when God is talking in the Bible about creating man, that is after he created the Heavens and the Earth. Prior to this He created angels and principalities. This also included Lucifer, who was cast out of Heaven and renames Satan. But this part is not what He was referring to when he said in Our image. Our image was only referring to the Trinity.

Answer 4

Whatever you do, don't go believing all that Trinity crap, invented by the manipulating church.

You are most intellegent and open minded.Keep up the good work, you are breaking free. You are seeing through the illusions the church has thrust upon the people for centuries.

This line is by far the most obvious truth. That we were created by other, very advanced beings. They mixed their DNA with the DNA of cromagnon man to make US(homosapiens) They were geneticists in their civilization. We were created to look like them. That is why it is written like that. If you keep reading you will see other things that draw a serious questioning. Like when Cain kills Abel, then the book speaks that Cain is ostrasized by all the other people. What other people? If Adam and eve had two kids and one of them was murdered that would leave only Adam, Eve, and Cain. So these other people were obviously not included in the Bible. The bible is an incomplete story, which is twisted by the church. Most people choose ignorance when these questions are addressed. God is not a being. God is existence itself. The Gods that made us are beings. They created us to help them. Then we were left to learn what is needed to learn. We are getting close to their return. Their planet(Niburu) is approaching our planet once again. There will be tribulations, but what follows will be an age of enlightenment. There is a lot of information out there. Most of it is from the ancient cultures, sumarian, Aztec, Mayan, Egyptians and more. Welcome to the real world!

Answer 5

The Hebrew word for God - our creator - as seen in Genesis is Elohiym.

H430
אלהים
'ĕlôhîym
el-o-heem'
It is the Plural of H433;

H433
אלהּ אלוהּ
'ĕlôahh 'ĕlôahh
el-o'-ah, el-o'-ah
(The second form is rare); probably prolonged (emphatically) from H410; a deity or the deity: - God, god. See H430.

It means We/They (Plural) that are the Creator (singular).

God was not speaking to himself in the grandious "WE" as royalty addresses themselves... He was speaking as God the Father to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

The word could also be used as gods in the ordinary sense; as when addressing the identities of pagan's pantheon of man made gods, but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.

The meaning of the word changed due to the context of the sentance. ...Like the word "bad" in slang... depending on how the word is used it can mean bad or good.

In Genesis - it is a conversation between the trinity of God.

Peace.

Answer 6

It refers to John chapter one:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The "Word" is Jesus who was with God since the beginning.

Answer 7

The masculine attributes represent the physical side of the duality of life, wheras the Feminine represent the spiritual. The Holy Trinity is a perfomance of 'touching the masculine' to remind us it is physical. When we pray we are connecting to the Feminine. The Trinity isnt representative of God in itself, but only that male aspect. I imagine if the Book of Genesis is correct that perhaps the male form was generated firstly because it was being generated in the physical dimension, sort of a functional check pre-release model before the more important Women was made.

Answer 8

It's Genesis 1:26,27
"our image" comes from the use of the Hebrew word "Eloyhim" which translates into English as "God."
Eloyhim has the interesting connotation and definition of being a plural noun. (More accurately, a "collective noun.")

Like the word "team" in English, it is in singular form, but the team itself is made of of many members. Or a "set" of something. Singluar noun, plurality of items in the set.

Eloyhim is the first hint we have of the Trinity in the Bible, and it's right there in Genesis 1.

Answer 9

Some believe he was addressing the other two members of the Holy Trinity, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Some believe he was talking to the angels. I believe both. And I also believe that once he cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, mans appearance was changed from that of the image of God to that of the image of what we are today.

Answer 10

God has revealed Himself to be plural in personhood (Genesis 1:26-27; Matthew 28:19; Revelation 1:4-5), yet He is still one God (Isaiah 45:5, 14, 21-22; 46:9). He has manifested Himself to be:

a. God the Father (Titus 1:3-4), who is the supreme authority in all that exists (1 Corinthians 15:28). He is the One who gave His only begotten Son to the world (John 3:16). He is the Father of all those who put their faith in Christ (Ephesians 1:3-5). And, He is a "man of war." (Exodus 15:3)

b. God the Son (Isaiah 9:6) is the Lord Jesus Christ, who is both God (Colossians 2:9) and man (1 Timothy 2:5).

c. God the Holy Spirit, who is the Lord Himself (2 Corinthians 3:17), dwells within and is given to every true believer at salvation (Ephesians 1:13; Romans 8:9), and is active in the work of God both in heaven and on earth (John 16:7-11; Genesis 1:2; Revelation 4:5). There is one Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:4), but this one Holy Spirit is plural in who He is (as God is plural in who He is). Zechariah 4:1-10, Revelation 1:4-5, 4:5, and 5:6 describe this one Holy Spirit to be seven ("the seven Spirits of God").

4. God has also revealed Himself to be Jerusalem.

Note : If anyone calls God with the name Trinity, it is false because the Bible NEVER uses this term, and typically how this term is used today, it falls short of what is revealed in the Word of God about who God is.

It is true that there is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as God (i.e. three in One, Matthew 28:19-20, a "Trinity," if you will). It is true that God is plural in personhood (Genesis 1:26-27; 11:7-8; Isaiah 48:16).

But, the word that "Christianity" (starting with the early church fathers who were Catholics) has used to describe Him (i.e. the "Trinity") falls short in their rejection of the seven Spirits of God. Please see Revelation 1:4-5; 4:5; 5:6; & Zechariah 4:1-10. There are seven Spirits describing the Holy Spirit clearly portrayed in Scripture.

Typically, these seven are brushed aside by preachers today as the seven-manifold manifestations of the Holy Spirit (read the commentaries on the Revelation passages above). If we simply take the Bible for what it says (take God at His word), we see that the Holy Spirit is described in Revelation and Zechariah as seven. Just as there is only one God, yet we have the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (plural in who He is). There is one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4), yet in describing this one Holy Spirit the Bible reveals Him to be seven (plural in who He is). This is definitely hard to understand, but nonetheless this is what the Word reveals (Romans 11:33-36).

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Answer 11

It's interesting - in the original Hebrew the word translated as "the Lord" is in this instance "Elohim," which is a masculine plural of a feminine noun. Both number and gender are thus confused. Again "In the image of God He created him: male and female He created them." (Gen 1:27.) This is thought by some to refer to an old tradition in which a feminine component to Jehovah was recognized - a tradition obviously abandoned in the patriarchal mainline of Judaism (see Patai on "The Hebrew Goddess").

All the people who think this refers to the "Trinity" are simply reading their Christianity into the text. The original author(s) of the Hebrew text of Genesis would no more have known what to make of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity than Christians do. Anyway, had the "Trinity" been meant in the text I quoted above, I suppose it should've read "In the image of God He created him: old man, younger man and bird created He them" - and then the only morally acceptable form of sex would be May-December homosexuality with a little avian bestiality thrown in.

And I second Father Guido's dismissal of the "Royal We" excuse. Even though the KJV is Elizabethan English, God does not typically refer to Himself in the first person plural; besides, the anomaly, as I mentioned above, is in the original Hebrew.