Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
-Genesis 1:26
2007-09-30 07:03:10 · 15 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was in conversing with someone. but Who?
Could this be the one God was talking too?
Proverbs 8:
22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
2007-09-30 07:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by Cold Truth 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Let us reason together. Did I just then mean you and I are the same person? No. The two of us can do something together. So, what does the Bible really say?
John 8:58 has Jesus speaking that he had a prehuman existence. "Before Abraham was, I have been." Indeed, Colossians 1:15 shows Jesus was the first born of ALL creation and through him all other things were made.
So the Bible answers that question itself of who God was talking too--Jesus.
2007-09-30 07:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though I believe in the Trinity and many Trinitarians believe this is God talking to Jesus and the Holy Spirit, I dont believe it is because God never refers to Himself in plural form anywhere else. As it says before "let us make man.." God had already created the heavens and the earth... Angles were already there. He was likely speaking to them because angels are body mind and spirit (which is the trinity) like God and God was making us the same way. Though angels didnt create Adam and Eve themselves, an angel was used (Satan) to bring about our free will and angels have also been used as a medium between God and man thus helping create who we became.
2007-09-30 07:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the hebrew word for god (power) can actually be translated in two ways since hebrew does not make a distinction between, many or great.
the words for 'a great god' and 'many gods' are the same. but since christianity is monotheistic thisi s translated as the first rather than the latter.
the first line of the bible can be translated in a few ways actually:
- in the beginning, a great god created the heavens and the earth.
- in the beginning gods created a grand heaven and the earth.
2007-09-30 07:08:18 · answer #4 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actual on the commencing up of the bible it does use the plural so the literal translation would desire to be greater like 'and then the gods made the earth' yet i think of that's greater of a hedging of the bets by way of the early writers to purpose and please pagans and people who beleive in many gods.
2016-12-14 04:05:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As techno says, it's just the royal plural - a convention in those days for kings and queens to speak of themselves in the plural.
Read Shakespeare and you'll find it everywhere.
CD
2007-09-30 07:13:46 · answer #6 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed, Plural God(s) can't be one by division.
Divided, against itself, shall fall, to desolation.
Begin: plural God divided: OT Law vs NT Law
OT Begin: Fear(torment); NT Begin: Sorrows.
The End: one God united, is Grace, is sufficient.
POINT: Grace is not Law Law, nor Law vs Law.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-09-30 07:15:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It simply confirms the teaching of the New Testament. There are three living Persons of the heavenly Trio!
2007-09-30 07:16:19 · answer #8 · answered by sky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal belief is that it is a reference to God and Goddess, hence, you know, the image of the female.
2007-09-30 07:16:09 · answer #9 · answered by James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Us and WE are used in majestic terms.
God is not allowed to be referred to in any plural form as this is against the first commandment.
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2007-09-30 07:07:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋