If there is only one god why does it say "WE shall make man in OUR image" Genesis?

Question

Please dont include " The Holy Trinity" not allowed ! One god means one god doesnt it ?

Answer 1

Yes thank you someone with some sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Maybe you have a problem because of what you don't want to hear. There is only one God, but Christians have identified 3 persons, not 3 gods. Think of a room in a studio flat, it is kitchen, living room and bedroom, but it's still only one room. There are lots of things in life that work in several different ways. As another example, is a Land Rover a car, a truck or a leisure vehicle? It's the same with people. In the new testament people are described as body soul & spirit. All mean the whole person but represent something different (today people more often refer to body mind & spirit), but each term still only refers to one person & that person isn't divided.
I'm not saying the trinity answer is right, it's just the standard one that fits this sort of question, which is why it's been thought out & remained for most of the last 2 milennia. It's probably the nearest we'll get to a proper answer we can understand. Maybe you need to ask yourself WHY don't you want to get the trinity answer? It may tell you a huge amount about about yourself & what could hinder your understanding. Just sometimes, accepting you can't explain or understand something actually frees you from the problem - oops there I go talking like a psychotherapist again. This is a spiritual question so I'll leave it there.
Hope you can find an answer that sets you free from the question though. It's a good one to try!

Answer 3

Because God was speaking to His Son.
"We" is and has always been; 1 person to Another......
Nurses say "we need to take our medicine" but, the
nurse takes none, you do! all of it.
Yes, 1 means 1...Except in Bizarro World!!

Disagreeing about the Trinity;
does not make the following statement, n/e less true
or accepted by Any Christian.
Even the 10 commandents 'tell us there are other gods.'
"Thou shalt not worship any gods before me"
It doesn't say, true gods.
It says Not to worship other gods.
The command came from the 1 true God, YHWH.
To Moses, on a mountain, in the wilderness.

The Trinity is NOT a Biblical teaching.
It is a Lie of false religion i.e. Satan the Devil.
Your god can be ANYTHING:
$, sex, food, cigs, lies, drugs, street drugs, cars,
ANYTHING.

Answer 4

Because the bible has been mistranslated.

In the original Hebrew, Genesis 1:1 uses the word "elohim", which is plural -- literally translated, the first line of the bible SHOULD read, "In the beginning, the GODS created the heavens and the earth..."

The Abrahamic religions evolved out of a Canaanite mystery cult which featured a whole pantheon of gods. Yahweh, who would later morph into the Christian God, was originally just the god of lightning.

Over the centuries, this mistranslation has been passed down and duplicated. In the Dark Ages, when the text was still in Latin and the vast majority of people were illiterate, it was easy for the clergy to get away with this glaring oversight because nobody could call them on it. But now that we've got 95+ percent literacy rates, the Christianity is caught between a rock and a hard place -- go back and fix the error, and all the atheists yell "Gotcha!"; leave it there, and it leaves in people like you the nagging doubt and the sense that somebody isn't dealing straight with you....

Answer 5

The Elohim, which is the original word used in Genesis, is a plural word for God. The meaning of it is mystical and not necessarily related to the idea of polytheism in early Judaism and has nothing to do with the Christian trinity, which was a concept that was developed much later.

Answer 6

Although there is only one true God, Jesus was his master worker and the only being directly created by God (his only begotten Son). Jesus was with God when man was created, therefore he could say "in OUR image".

(Proverbs 8:27-31) “. . .When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men."


~wannaknow~

Answer 7

What He actually said was "Let Us make man in Our image" and as He was referring to the Trinity how can you ask any sane person to answer without reference to that fact? The Holy Trinity is one God...who consists of three parts.
You asking people not to answer in that way is like asking...where does cows milk come from but you are not allowed to answer 'a cow'.
Best wishes to you anyway, Mike.

Answer 8

Well, sorry to say this, but it's the trinity. The trinity is something our little brain can't fully wrap around. This one guy on this thing had a great explanation on the trinity. He used the example of water. Water can be a solid, liquid or gase, but they are the same thing. Also another little bit to the explanation of the trinity is how there in Time, Space, Matter. You need space to put matter. You need time to put matter there. And you need matter to have something. They all work together. So put those two example, and then you can kinda understand the trinity. There is one God, but three parts to him. I am sorry, but that's the only way I can explain and answer your question. I know you won't like my answer, but oh well. Thanx for the question!

Answer 9

In a family, there is a mother, father, and children. God also has children, they are called angels. He was talking to them when the above statement was made, that includes his first born the Word, who later became Jesus.

Answer 10

It is "pluralis majestatis", the king's use of We instead of I.

You see, the king says, or said, "we, ...", he did not say "I, ..." when he declared something.

Anyway, I want to additionally tell you this:

A facetious good old friend of mine, a somewhat sceptical type, has told me that the Bible contains the Holy Annals and the Law of the old Jewish people, those mesopotamian tribes who in late prehistoric times had to abandon Chaldea (Sumer) because of a climatic deterioration that was turning their land into a desert.

This friend of mine thinks that the astute power-seeking kinglike leaders of those semitic tribes contrived a God in their own image and declared that He, Almighty Omniscient God, had created them in HIS OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS and made them His favorite elected people granting them the holy right to their Promised Land westwards towards the eastern Mediterranean shores that already was the fruitful homeland of other less favored God's people who also had come to that land but presumably from west, from eastern Europe, maybe from Macedonia, or even from Anatolia, or from some other western part out there.

Answer 11

Jehovah was talking to Jesus Christ, Jehovah's first creation. no place in the bible does it talk about a trinity. yes Jesus said you seen me you seen the Father, he was with Jehovah from the beginning so he knows his Father real well. when he prayed, he prayed to his Father in the heaven, Jesus said he cannot do anything without the Father. Jesus is now seating on the right side of Jehovah God.