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12-16-2008, 01:16 PM
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Genesis:Creation:Let Us Make Man in Our Image.
In Genesis it says Let us make man in our image. Some say that was God talking to his other 2 personalities (trinity) others say he was talking to angels, and the oneness church says it was god refering to a plurality of his majesty. I want to know what others think....I claim to have no clue!  |
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12-16-2008, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by DaniMae1
In Genesis it says Let us make man in our image. Some say that was God talking to his other 2 personalities (trinity) others say he was talking to angels, and the oneness church says it was god refering to a plurality of his majesty. I want to know what others think....I claim to have no clue! |
A topic I love with a conclusion that won't be popular. The Jewish version of the creation story is an old hand me down oral account that was put to paper with Israel's god thrown in to satisfy the Jewish mind. In older myths of the same story, a supreme god sits with his divine court to talk about "a worker" for them. They reach an agreement and then THEY decide to make man in their own image, hence the "let us" or the "us" we read about three times in the book of Genesis.
By the time the Jews sat down to come up with their version, they had become a monotheistic people. The Christian sect that rose from within Judaism also went with monotheism. The Jewish account left the "us" in the passage which reflects the older accounts, however, it posed a problem to later generations of monotheists who maintain that the god of the Bible is one God with NO equal (the trinity thing is a whole mess by itself) so in order to get around this, the confusing explanations you listed up top had to be employed.
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12-16-2008, 01:32 PM
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It is the mission of His spirit to accomplish it. His plan hasn't changed.
We are to be changed into His image by dying to our carnal nature (taking up our cross) and the renewing of our mind. (Rom 2:12, 8:29)
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12-16-2008, 02:30 PM
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Well it does make sence that it be His three seperate personalities. God the Father overseeing it all, The Son which is the word, and The Holy Spirit which is the worker.
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12-16-2008, 02:47 PM
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The Father, the Son , and the Holy Spirit make up the godhead...whether you like that word or not!
They are all three part of divinity (another word for godhead). Anyone who believes the Bible is the inspired word of God have no problem with that concept.
If you do not believe the Bible is inspired, you are free to believe anything you want to.  You are going to, anyway! |
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12-16-2008, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by DaniMae1
In Genesis it says Let us make man in our image. Some say that was God talking to his other 2 personalities (trinity) others say he was talking to angels, and the oneness church says it was god refering to a plurality of his majesty. I want to know what others think....I claim to have no clue! |
It is not the angels, they were not made in His image. It is the Trinity |
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12-16-2008, 09:53 PM
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It is not the angels, they were not made in His image. It is the Trinity
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This is what I believe too. |
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12-16-2008, 10:47 PM
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Another vote for the Godhead.
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12-16-2008, 11:04 PM
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Romans 8:18-21
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I believe that this refers to the Jesus the Son who is the exact image of the Father and through whom all things came into being and the Father, who is the source of all things. I believe that God created all things through Jesus, the Word made flesh. I don't believe that it refers to a Trinity. God bless.
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12-16-2008, 11:17 PM
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Would a Jew 2,000 years ago reading that passage walk away with the idea that it was speaking of 'the trinity?' Aren't Christians reading a doctrine that developed much later amongst Christians back into the passage?
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