What is This?

[thesorgo]

I was perusing the Bible for a paper I have to write and stumbled upon this verse.

"And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil."

I underlined the us because, to my understanding, you guys believe that there is only one god. I thought it was a commandment and all. It's Genesis 3 verse 22 if any of you want to look it up.

Edited January 3, 2008 by thesorgo

[Jorge S]

I was perusing the Bible for a paper I have to write and stumbled upon this verse.

"And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil."

I underlined the us because, to my understanding, you guys believe that there is only one god. I thought it was a commandment and all. It's Genesis 3 verse 22 if any of you want to look it up.

I have always interpreted that passage as the earliest mention of the triune nature of the One True God.

[thesorgo]

Now you bring up another question that i have often wondered about. I think of the holy ghost as what talked to the disciples for the three days after Jesus died. But if the Holy Ghost didn't appear until after Jesus died. How is there a triad back in Genesis. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[patricia1]

Let us make man in Our image..Gen 1:6 It is not secified who God was talking to. The angels, the earth ..? I do know the plurality of the Godhead is often use by the name 'elohim which is used in reference to God frequently here in genesis. The word bara is used in singular form which meands created in Gen. 1:1. So here we have a writer who is trying to convey in hebrew one God with triunity.

Pantheism is having many gods and what you have fallen upon in scripture certainly is not pantheism. Geneisis 3:22 is 'Elohim. patricia1

[Giaour]

John MacArthur

In verse 26, "Let us make man in our image," implicates the whole of the trinity in the creative act. The whole of the trinity are brought together to do this. "Let us make man in our image," and then verse 27 says, "And God created man." You can speak of God as one as in verse 27, or you can refer to God as more than one as in verse 26 and He says, "Let us make man in our image." God is one God and yet He is three persons, as we know.

[MorningGlory]

I was perusing the Bible for a paper I have to write and stumbled upon this verse.

"And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil."

I underlined the us because, to my understanding, you guys believe that there is only one god. I thought it was a commandment and all. It's Genesis 3 verse 22 if any of you want to look it up.

I always thought He was talking to the angels when He said this. He's not alone up there, you know.

[JesusisGod2]

Now you bring up another question that i have often wondered about. I think of the holy ghost as what talked to the disciples for the three days after Jesus died. But if the Holy Ghost didn't appear until after Jesus died. How is there a triad back in Genesis. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Actually the Holy Spirit was very much involved in the creation o0f the heavens and the earth

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

As was the Father and the Son

[patricia1]

na, Then if he made us in the image of angels we would have no chance for redemption , and different bodies that cannot die. If Jesus was made lower than the angels what does that tell us...I widh though it be true..

[JesusisGod2]

na, Then if he made us in the image of angels we would have no chance for redemption , and different bodies that cannot die. If Jesus was made lower than the angels what does that tell us...I widh though it be true..

Good point.

We are not made in the image of angels, but in the image of God. The reason that we are lower than the angels at this point is the limitations of this mortal body. We died when Adam sinned, we put off immortality so to speak and put on the mortal, a body that must die in order to live eternal, and so we must die in order to recieve our immortal bodies.

Jesus (The human nature of Jesus anyway) was also born with the limitations of a mortal body.

[John3;16]

This is an old post, so I don't know if those who posted are going to look at this, but I'll post it any way. Maybe it can revive the much debated subject.

The book of John chapter one, is a corralation to Genesis chapter one, it reads that the Word who is Jesus was with God and that God is the Word, and the Greek says God was the Word, not the Word is a god. This is the Phonetic spelling of the Greek: (En (in) arche (beginning) en (was) o (the) logos (word) Kai (and) O (the) logos (Word) en (was) Pros (with) Theon (God) Kai (and) Theos (God) en (was) O (the) logos (Word)

The book of John continues that all things were made by Him and without Him, there was not anything made v.1:3, also verse 1:10 states that He was in the World and the world was made by Him. So it is evident that Jesus is God, and is in harmony with Genesis 1:1, Let us make man in our image.

John|1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John|1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

John|1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. John|1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John|1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

John|1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

John|1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

John|1:8 He was not that Light, but