Plural God?!?!?

Question

Why is it in Genesis, God refers to himself in the plural :
"Genesis 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"
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"Genesis 3:22: And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever."

what is all this Us about? could it be that the god of old testiment is not the god of the trinity?

gnosis christians, who preach from the gospels of Mary and Judas - believe that the Us, refers to the "father" and the "mother" the mother being sophia, the thought of god. Yahova being the power of god and jesus (the son) being the perfect union...hmm

well the queen speaks in the royal "we" because she speaks on behalf of her court. and it was only queen Victoria who did

Answer 1

It means that Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been with and a part of the one God since the beginning of time.

Peace!

Answer 2

God is a trinity of persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the same person as the Son; the Son is not the same person as the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is not the same person as Father. They are not three gods and not three beings. They are three distinct persons; yet, they are all the one God. Each has a will, can speak, can love, etc., and these are demonstrations of personhood. They are in absolute perfect harmony consisting of one substance. They are coeternal, coequal, and copowerful. If any one of the three were removed, there would be no God. (See also, "Another Look at the Trinity")
Jesus, the Son, is one person with two natures: Divine and Human. This is called the Hypostatic Union. The Holy Spirit is also divine in nature and is self aware, the third person of the Trinity.
There is, though, an apparent separation of some functions among the members of the Godhead. For example, the Father chooses who will be saved (Eph. 1:4); the Son redeems them (Eph. 1:7); and the Holy Spirit seals them, (Eph. 1:13).
A further point of clarification is that God is not one person, the Father, with Jesus as a creation and the Holy Spirit is a force (Jehovah's Witnesses). Neither is He one person who took three consecutive forms, i.e., the Father, became the Son, who became the Holy Spirit. Nor is God the divine nature of the Son (where Jesus had a human nature perceived as the Son and a divine nature perceived as the Father (Oneness theology). Nor is the Trinity an office held by three separate Gods (Mormonism).
The word "person" is used to describe the three members of the Godhead because the word "person" is appropriate. A person is self aware, can speak, love, hate, say "you," "yours," "me," "mine," etc. Each of the three persons in the Trinity demonstrate these qualities.
The chart below should help you to see how the doctrine of the Trinity is systematically derived from Scripture. The list is not exhaustive, only illustrative.
The first step is to establish the biblical doctrine that there is only one God. Then, you find that each of the persons is called God, each creates, each was involved in Jesus' resurrection, each indwells, etc. Therefore, God is one, but the one God is in three simultaneous persons. Please note that the idea of a composite unity is not a foreign concept to the Bible; after all, man and wife are said to be one flesh. The idea of a composite unity of persons is spoken of by God in Genesis (Gen. 2:24).

There is only one God

Answer 3

The pre-incarnate Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father have always been and always will be. That is who was talking in the Genesis scripture you refer to. The three elements of God are referred to as the Trinity of God.

Answer 4

The "US" is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

David said in a psalm "The Lord said to my Lord...."
This shows to greater powers than what King David was.
And of course in Genesis we read about God's Spirit moving over the water.

Answer 5

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word....and the Word (Christ) was with God.....and the Word was God"

There is one God....who eternally exists in 3 distinct Personalities:

Father, Son & Holy Spirit (The Trinity)

Answer 6

There is a sense in which "god" is both singular and plural. The most transcendent absolute God is One. Between us and that are gods and angelic beings of all types who are our bridge to the Infinite. There is a Hierarchy of light between man and God.

Answer 7

Some theologians say God referring to "us" means the different parts of the Trinity.

Answer 8

If you can picture Heaven as a VERRRRY large corporation, all new ideas must be voted on in the board room.
So, as God lays the blueprints out on the loooonnnng conference table, he's communicating with angels....or as I like to refer to them as.....shareholders.
One company = US
(Actually cool to find out that God is a company man, huh?)


And, forgive my ignorance, in Genesis 3:22, it REALLY says that?
".....to know good AND evil..."? He knew we were going to encounter evil....and KNOW it?
No wonder.....the world just became a whole lot clearer to me now.

Answer 9

This is a Majestic plural, not a numerical one. Read Deuteronomy 6:4.

Answer 10

This really confused me! There are theories on this but the most common (and simple) is that this refers to the trinity. That's what i believe anyway..
God bless