What does God mean when he says in Genesis let us make man in our image?

Question

Who is the us he is talking about if it is Jesus why wouldn't he just say it, is it the angels why didn't he just say it?

Answer 1

This is a reference to the ancient polytheistic source, that the Genesis myth was truly derived from; I believe it was Egyptian or Babylonian, perhaps a combo of the two.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Our limited human minds can't comprehend everything about God. But I believe that the "us" is talking about the trinity of God.
In Genesis 1:2 it says "the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters" - so this could be the Holy Spirit part of the trinity, it could be just God, since God is Spirit.

Then it says GOD SPOKE. When you go to the Gospel of John (chapter 1) you will find the following verses:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
THOROUGH 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." (1-4)
" THE WORD BECAME FLESH and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." (14)

And in Col. 1 it talks again about Jesus:
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For 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. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." (verse15-17)

Answer 4

Title: Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Old Testament
Edition: First
Copyright: Electronic Edition STEP Files Copyright © 2000, Findex.com, Inc.


That man was made in God’s image and after his likeness, two words to express the same thing and making each other the more expressive; image and likeness denote the likest image, the nearest resemblance of any of the visible creatures. Man was not made in the likeness of any creature that went before him, but in the likeness of his Creator; yet still between God and man there is an infinite distance. Christ only is the express image of God’s person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. It is only some of God’s honour that is put upon man, who is God’s image only as the shadow in the glass, or the king’s impress upon the coin. God’s image upon man consists in these three things:—1. In his nature and constitution, not those of his body (for God has not a body), but those of his soul. This honour indeed God has put upon the body of man, that the Word was made flesh, the Son of God was clothed with a body like ours and will shortly clothe ours with a glory like that of his. And this we may safely say, That he by whom God made the worlds, not only the great world, but man the little world, formed the human body, at the first, according to the platform he designed for himself in the fulness of time. But it is the soul, the great soul, of man, that does especially bear God’s image. The soul is a spirit, an intelligent immortal spirit, an influencing active spirit, herein resembling God, the Father of Spirits, and the soul of the world. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. The soul of man, considered in its three noble faculties, understanding, will, and active power, is perhaps the brightest clearest looking-glass in nature, wherein to see God.

Answer 5

God is 4 parts. Father of loving light, Father of Manifestation,Heart(son),and the Mother of Everything.

We as man(ADOM KADMON) possess all 4 parts within us. This is what is meant by image.

Any religion that speaks of a trinity is a Mother hating group who is bent on the death of the Mother of Everything part. This is why the earth is so full of evil. And this is what is really going on in the middle east. Don't be surprised if we have all out world war soon. These evil trinity religions have destroyed many planets. They go far beyond what you think of as reality.

Answer 6

If you look again, The meaning was that we are made in the image of spirit (Gen.1-26). The Godhead(the unmanifest) spoken in Genesis was named "God". Notice how the "Lord God":Jesus (the WORDof God) had made the actual/physical beings in Gen. 2-7. Notice the name change from God to Lord God. And Later the procreation of the first "birth", the "LORD" ( Holy Spirit) was the Power (Gen. 4-1). The Holy Trinity is ONE.

Answer 7

Gen 1:26 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.

GOD here is 430 'elohiym
el-o-heem'
plural of ''elowahh' (433); gods in the ordinary sense; 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.

"magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding"

So GOD is talking to not just angels but His Magistrates of HIS government. In other words HE is talking to HIS Archangels. Those in change of HIS government.

Answer 8

Jehovah God was talking to Jesus Christ the son. not himself. Jesus is not God. Jesus Christ was the first creation. when Jesus Christ was on earth, he prayed to his Father Jehovah in the heavens. the Father Jehovah, Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit, Jehovah's Active Force. they are not the same. when Jesus was baptized, Jehovah came down like a dove and said this is my son the beloved.

Answer 9

For those who believe in evolution it could mean changing the genetic structure of apes to a higher formation of man.

Answer 10

In the Bible God is only ONE and we think of God in the New Testament primarily as Jesus and he is of course also the God of the Old Testament, however, Jesus talks also about the “Father” and also about the “Spirit” so they are three but the tree are one – this is why there is “us” and not “I”