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Question

Ge 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:

The Lord God refers to himself as one of us, to know good and evil. Who are the others The Lord God is refering to???

So DP were these being there during creation because so far they haven't made their debute in Genesis? If they are one as well why would they speak to themself?

Nikolas good point.

Aaron seems like you are aware of the Book of Enki? Good I like that. I respect your opinion and choice of words.

Good point CJunk, it does indeed show that earlier God fear peoples did indeed render hold and belief in more than one deity.

Good point Ghosty!

Answer 1

Odin, Thor, etc.


That's what you get for eating from Idunna's tree!

Answer 2

I'm not sure how many read the whole question. I do notice it's a common tactic to say Hitler believed whatever to suit whatever argument is being made, like "Hitler was an atheist, therefore all atheists are bad". Not to mention it seems rather foolishly to judge a whole group of people based on the actions of one. Let's just say for the sake of argument, Hitler really was an atheist. Why would that automatic make all other atheists bad? How many atheists out there would ever want to do anything even remotely close at all to what Hitler did? It's reasons like that I believe the whole argument falls apart. Not to mention the appeal to authority argument. If we were suppose to follow that argument, everyone would be a Jew because Einstein was.

Answer 3

According to Sumer history, the gods were many entities. People like us, but above the animals, but with very advanced technology. There was a council of the 12 gods/goddesses. We called them gods because they could do "godly" things. Things beyond primitive mans' comprehension. The one mistakenly called the evil one, or Satan is credited with creating us in a lab. A female earth primate's egg fertilized by a divine sperm from the gods. And, here we are. The one we call god now is the brother who wanted to eradicate us. Enki, or the "evil" one who made us loved us and saved us from slavery from his brother god.God had us as slaves. Enki didn't like his creations being slaves. He gave them knowledge, the "apple" to set us free. Slave then were naked and owned no clothes. Adam and Eve gaining clothes freed them from their slavery. And, we call him evil, the one who made us from mixing our DNA with his. I say, the bible is wrong and badly plagiarized from the Sumer texts.
Mixing the DNA's gave us a spirit which is what makes us divine and more than animals. Although we are part animal we are also divine.

Answer 4

Non-religious

This speaking in the plural is echoed in the Tower of Babel incident. Genesis 11:7 "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (KJV)

Throughout time the serpent has stood as symbol of immortality. Many ancient cultures upon seeing the shed skin of a snake believed that the snake never died; only shedding one body for a new one. In Greek mythology the god Prometheus is often depicted as a winged serpent bringing the gift of fire to man. Later Prometheus was replaced by the image of the wing-footed Hermes holding aloft the caduceus or "serpent entwined staff" as he brought the secret knowledge of the gods to mankind.

Images of winged and fiery serpents Numbers 21:6 "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." (KJV)

Answer 5

GhostHunterB says "How did god manage to create both male and female in God's own image if God was only one or the other?"

God is neither male or female. It is an energy and that is the image that we were made in - as spiritual beings. Everything is made of this same energy (ask any scientist) and therefore GOD is all that exists seen and unseen. We are here as spirits (as light vibrating at a lower level which forms into matter, which is humans in this case) having a human experience.

Peacefromken.

Answer 6

God made Himself known as a plural being but one in essence and purpose all through Genesis. Here is one of my favorites, in Gen18 we see God (Jehovah) in original translation, visiting Abraham along with two angels. The Bible clearly stated that no man has ever seen God the Father so as Jesus later clarified this "Jehovah" was non other than preincarnate Christ the second person of the Godhead.

Answer 7

The correct tranlsation of Gen 1:1 is "In the begining The Gods (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth"

There are no early hebrew trinitarians, however there is ample evidence of there being ancient hebrew polytheist. There are many mystic jews that believed that the serpant was the true God and The Gods were just a_s_sholes

Try reading it as 'THE GODS' instead of 'GOD'. However in some translations the translators, in order to disguise the early plural god belief, have translated 'ELOHIM' to just plain 'HIM' or 'He'

I realise now I have way too much time on my hands.

Answer 8

This was communication within what is known as the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). God was communicating with others equal to Himself, which leaves out anything other than the other two members of the Trinity.

He has used the plural reference several times in Scripture;

Genesis 1:26

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.

Note that God uses the plural "us", yet the pronoun God is still used. Multiple beings, one title.


Isaiah 6:8

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Note that Isaiah hears " Whom shall I send, and who will go for US?" Again God speaking in the singular and plural at the same time.

The "Great Shema" of the ancient Israel unwittingly speaks of the plural nature of God when it says, "Adonai echad". "Echad" in Hebrew is what is known as a "compound singular", meaning several, yet one. A good example would be a cluster of grapes; several grapes, one cluster.

"Echad" explains the Trinity concept perfectly, in which you have three beings, each individually God, but of one consistancy as God.

The Hebrew language also uses the term "Elohim" in speaking of God. The "im" suffix in Hebrew indicates plurality, in essence saying "Gods". Combined with the "echad" description, this again explains the triune yet singular nature of God.

So in this, both Testaments are in agreement that God is plural, consisting of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Answer 9

It could be the angels, it could be (though I personally don't see it) the whole Trinity thing, or it could be the female part of the divine that many refer to as the Goddess.

Note another interesting passage here:

Genesis 1:27 So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

How did god manage to create both male and female in God's own image if God was only one or the other?

Answer 10

genesis makes clear that there are other intelligences create before the fall: the serpent tempts eve, so the serpent at least must be a non-god sentient being.

who these intelligences are, and how many of them, is never made clear. but god might just be talking to the serpent at this point (since the serpent at least knows the meaning of good and evil before he offers eve knowledge of them).

or god might be talking to the entire host of angels. these appear only in later books of the bible (particularly the apocrypha), but when the angels appear they seem to have already been on-set for some time.

Answer 11

I follow no religion, yet I am spiritual , for I do believe in a spirit welm, and God, and Jesus. I also believe that much of the bible was re-written wrong, and mis-read. Yet if the statement is true what was written, I have actually wondered the same thing. I have two answers. One, That God is the existance of many concious beings , all whom live within us, or that many "gods" exist, and are just the most highest state of evolved concious spirit one may reach, so many gods may exist. The last idea, is that Aliens created mankind (though not the soul), and originally lived among us, controlling us. Untill they feared that we would over take them.