---- 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, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground." -----

Us? Our likeness?

More then 1 god?

discuss

OUR IMAGE

Many people would say that if refers to the trinity. The trinity is the father, son and the holy spirit. No they are not 3 Gods, they are 3 parts to God.

The correct teaching is that God is speaking in what is called the " contemplative mood " .

Elohim is a clear reference to God in the singular and the following Scriptures in which God is talking to man are in the singular .

This post was edited by WidowMaKer_MK on May 23 2010 07:58am

How is Eloheim a clear reference to God in the singular when adding the term "heim" to the word "Eloi" (God) makes it plural?

that's what i was thinking

whenever God refers to himself in the bible it is always plural ... however the Shema says this ...Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one

Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

When Jesus was on the cross he said My God My God why have you for saken me ... i believe he was addressing the other 2 parts of the GodHead God the Father and The Holy Spirit ... he was also quoting psalms or was it quoting him?

I believe the answer is There is one God but he is manifested in 3 ways ... and this is why we are in his image as we are more than just our bodies ...we also have a soul and a spirit ... i also believe anywhere on earth God has manifested himself in a bodily human form this was Jesus

No angels in paradise? Thought that Satan was a corrupted angel, so i thought that was others angels existing in heaven.

Like Gabriels angels etc.

This post was edited by jerds24 on Aug 13 2010 01:44am

John 1-5

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a] it.

this is wideley believed to be a refrence to Jesus being present at the creation, so you could say that God was talking to Jesus and that is why Us and Our are used

Correct Jesus is the creator... he is God in bodily form ...even before he was born to Mary Jesus made appearances ... as when he ate lunch with abraham (Gen 18)...refered to as the angel of the lord sometimes angel = messanger ... also refered to as the Lord or as in this next reference the comander of the Lords Army when he appeared to Joshua (Joshua 5:13-15)

there is Genesis 18: God talked to Abtaham and had 2 companions i think are angels and then there in Sodom and Gomorrah i think that thay where here with him befor us and it sead we are in the image so we would be like him.
What i get comfused about is in
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.

and then after the God makes Adam

Hope i add something