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Who was the "Us" at Gen 1:26?

moorea944

Well-Known Member
To answer your question..
When God said "Let's us make man in our image after our likeness..
God was speaking to no one else..
But the Angels..
There are many places in the Bible.
that people spoke to an angel in reference to the man as a angel.
Notice in the book of Daniel 9:21--"Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation"

Therefore Daniel called Gabriel a man.
The name Gabriel means man of God.
Which Gabriel is a angel.
Therefore when God said--"Let's us.
This being the angles..we are not only in the image of God and likeness...
But the Angels as well..

Notice in the book of Judges 13:1-6..
the angle of the Lord appeared unto the woman..and she went to her husband and told him saying..a man of God came into me..
Therefore here's another example of a
angel being made in reference to a man.
Thereby when God said ( let us)
This being the angles.
There are many Christians that would have a problem with that. because they chose to follow man's teachings and not what God teaches in his own words.
Thank you..hope this will be of some help.


Great post, thank you!! Your absolutely right. It was God and the angels in the beginning. Scripture also tells us that the angels are God's fingers when it comes to His work here on earth.
 

Etritonakin

Well-Known Member
So, God has a Triune Multiple Personality Disorder?

Actually...... it might technically be true that God essentially -willingly -has a multiple personality ORDER.

If God is essentially everything -and also created us, then God created other personalities by logically separating part of himself as other selves -self-replicating, to a degree -and giving them independent decision-making power.

[I was wondering about the relationship between the Father and the Word -why the Father is necessarily in authority and the Word who became Christ (actually called "the firstborn of many brethren" in scripture) obeys his will before his own (Nevertheless, if it be thy will...). Perhaps the Word was the first/initial self-replication/reproduction of the Father. Just presently a consideration, though.]
 
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theQuestion

Member
Do you have a better theory?

No theory. God was talking to His son, and likely the angels.
God made al things THRU His son- and the angels likely helped.
Man s lower than the angels, so if HE was made in God's image, they were, too- especially since Jesus was ONE of them- the Archangel!
 

syo

Well-Known Member
No theory. God was talking to His son, and likely the angels.
God made al things THRU His son- and the angels likely helped.
Man s lower than the angels, so if HE was made in God's image, they were, too- especially since Jesus was ONE of them- the Archangel!
The angels are servants. They don't have free will, they are not the image of God, and Jesus wasn't an angel. Where did you get all these things?

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I read some christian orthodox sites about the angels. According to them, angels have free will and they are images of God. you are right. but jesus isn't an angel.
 
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Ebionite

Well-Known Member
Why was The name Yahwism changed to the name Judaism after ...
www.quora.com/Why-was-The-name-Yahwism-changed...
Apr 16, 2019 · Answer Wiki. The term “yahwist” was made up by speculative archaeologists in the 1970s. No religion in the history of forever has been called “yahwism” and even the name “Yahweh” is a speculative guess at how the name YHWH might have once been pronounced (and it is not actually clear that it ever was pronounced).
According to the Hebrew text the name was pronounced and it was meant to be pronounced in certain circumstances.

And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
YHWH bless thee, and keep thee:
Numbers 6:22-24

While the Yahwish and Elohist traditions were part of the documentary hypothesis, they're still useful in communicating the reason why the name of YHWH was hidden.
 

Ebionite

Well-Known Member
(pretentious rubbish)
A good example of Wikipedia bias if their history of acting as gatekeepers for the global warming/climate change crowd. Back in the day, wikipedia was proven to be associated with wikileaks via wikia, although Jimmy denied this.
 

cataway

Well-Known Member
The angels are servants. They don't have free will, they are not the image of God, and Jesus wasn't an angel. Where did you get all these things?
wrong
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male[איש] and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male[איש] and his female.
Genesis 7:2
giraffe . seven ?
 

lostwanderingsoul

Well-Known Member
Angels are "sons of God" as Jesus- except Jesus was the firstBORN / created.
God SENT His son.
He was already a son of God.
Sorry but I do not see anything that says angels are God's children. Can you quote a verse that says this. Yes, angels were created by God but if a human carves a wooden puppet that looks like a human , that puppet is not a human and is not the carvers child. The child of a human is a human. The child of a god is a god. angels are not gods.
 

blü 2

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Was God talking to 'Themselves'?
No one else was there?
No, back in the early days of the bible it was still well-known that there were lots of gods. For example:

Exodus 15:11 Who is like thee, O Lord, among the gods?
Exodus 20:1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Numbers 33:4 upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
Judges 11:23-24 So the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? 24 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
Psalms 82:1 God has taken his place in the divine council; / in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.
Psalms 95:3 For the Lord is a great god, / and a great King above all gods.​

And that's just a sampling.

There's also the question of just who the 'sons of God' are; are they just the nephilim, or does the word refer to the courtiers at God Central in general?

The idea that there are no other gods appears around the time of the Babylonian captivity.

The idea that there's one God who exists as a Trinity first appears in the 4th century CE.

What next?
 
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sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
The simple facts are:

1- Angels ("messengers"- servants of God) were also there
2- Men are LOWER than angels, yet made in "God's Image"- so too, the angels must have been., and
3-God's "only-begotten" son was there with His OTHER 'sons'.
Nope. Not according to Genesis. Read it again. No mention of Jesus.
 

1213

Well-Known Member
Was God talking to 'Themselves'?
No one else was there?

Perhaps it was this group of gods:

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
Psalms 82:1

I said, "You are gods, All of you are sons of the Most High. Nevertheless you shall die like men, And fall like one of the rulers."
Psalms 82:6-7
 
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