Hello, just a question. I'm new to the forum. I'll introduce myself later.
I'm reading Today's New International Version. Genesis 1:26.......Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, etc. etc." My question is, who is, " us?" Up to that point the indication, of course, was that God was acting alone with His creation. But all of a sudden the reference is to, "us", or more than one, if you know what I mean.
Can anyone explain that change? I always very simply assumed of course, that God was the sole creator. Is there something this mortal is missing? Is it a misstep by TNIV in their human frailty?
Thank you.........Dave
Some people believe that the Us is a trinity of 3 persons in one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Now while this may be true I do not believe that in this scripture it means that but it is a prophetic statement to the coming Son of God.
Jesus is God manifest in the flesh so He is God and man the visible manifestation of the invisible God.
Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations who is Abraham) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
God calls things that have not happened yet as though they already happened for if it is a plan of God to happen in the future it is the same as if it happened in the beginning for it will surely come to pass with no hindrance.
Which the Bible says the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, and the prophets blood was shed from the foundation of the world, and all the works were finished from the foundation of the world although they did not happen until years later.
The Word was in the beginning and the Word became flesh who is God manifest in flesh which it was a plan of God to come in the future in flesh so it was the same as if it was in the beginning.
Jesus is the beginning of creation, and the firstborn of every creature although He was not born until 4000 years later but Jesus is the first plan God had before He laid down the foundation of the world.
Which without the Word God would of not created anything He created for Jesus is the reason creation is successful to give eternal life and judge people and angels.
The Son the man Christ Jesus was considered being in the beginning before He was born because God calls things that have not happened as though they already happened.
God had the plan to come in the future in flesh before He laid down the foundation of the world.
Adam was made in the image of God which is an innocent nature in flesh.
In the New Testament it says Adam was made in the figure of Him to come who is Jesus so Adam was made in the image of Christ.
The image of God is the image of Christ an innocent nature in flesh but Christ is God Himself manifest in flesh.
God had the plan to come in the future in flesh before He created Adam and created Adam in the image that He would appear in the future.
So I believe the Let us make man in our image is God and the Son the man Christ Jesus for the man Christ Jesus is a part of that image for Adam was made in the image of Christ.
So while there may be a trinity in this scripture it seems to mean God and the man Christ Jesus a prophetic statement to the coming Son of God.
Concerning God manifest in the flesh which the man Christ Jesus is the personal human body of God and the visible relationship of the invisible God to the Father might throw people off because God is bigger than a human body.
It means that God manifest all His attributes to the man Christ Jesus for He is the fulness of the Godhead in a bodily image, and it pleased the Father that in Him all fulness shall dwell, and He has the Spirit without measure.
And the Spirit in the man Christ Jesus is still connected to the omnipresent Spirit of Christ for God cannot be divided.
God is an omnipresent Spirit that the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain so He does not have to move for He is already there.
Jesus does not have His own personal Spirit that moves around with Him for there cannot be a double portion of the Spirit in one space and there cannot be an empty space where the Spirit is not occupying but Jesus moves through the Spirit and wherever space He is occupying the Spirit is there.
Which might help to explain how an omnipresent Spirit can be considered God manifest in flesh.
1Ti 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Ti 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Jesus is God but there is more to Him than being manifest in flesh for He is an omnipresent Spirit.
Jesus dwells in the light which no person can approach unto, and no person has seen Jesus, and no person will ever see Jesus for He is an invisible Spirit but He showed us a visible image of Himself which the throne in heaven is the throne of God and the Lamb who is God in the glorified body of the man Christ Jesus.
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