This is kind of a popular one.
Um, and it reads, "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image after our likeness.'" Okay, so like what you were saying, let us, this, this is actually meaning more than one.
I know the Christian doctrine says that this is, um, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit speaking.
That's what they try to say.
According to your findings, i- is this a, a, you know, a council of, of angels who are over creating mankind or, or is this the supreme God speaking alone to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
Okay.
And if somebody, again, is on a website where they can get to the word level information, they can follow along here.
Is it grammatically singular or plural? It's singular, vyomer, again, third masculine singular.
Mm-hmm
... here's what he says, "Let us make humankind in our image." So we have a singular speaker.
Let us make humankind in our image." So he's speaking to a group, and the question is, well, who's in the group? And you're right, you know, a lot of, uh, Christians will take this as a reference to the Trinity, as though God is having a conversation with, uh, himself or the members of the Trinity.
Uh, that could, that, that could be workable here, but the problem with it is, is if you take other scenes in the Bible where God is, you know, in his heavenly throne or in some other-
Mm-hmm
in his divine abode in heaven, and he's speaking to a group of Elohim, for instance, Psalm 82.
You can't have the Trinity there because he's castigating the members of the heavenly host, the divine council, is the language that Psalm 82 uses.
This is kind of a popular one.
Um, and it reads, "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image after our likeness.'" Okay, so like what you were saying, let us, this, this is actually meaning more than one.
I know the Christian doctrine says that this is, um, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit speaking.
That's what they try to say.
According to your findings, i- is this a, a, you know, a council of, of angels who are over creating mankind or, or is this the supreme God speaking alone to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
Okay.
And if somebody, again, is on a website where they can get to the word level information, they can follow along here.
Is it grammatically singular or plural? It's singular, vyomer, again, third masculine singular.
Mm-hmm
... here's what he says, "Let us make humankind in our image." So we have a singular speaker.
Let us make humankind in our image." So he's speaking to a group, and the question is, well, who's in the group? And you're right, you know, a lot of, uh, Christians will take this as a reference to the Trinity, as though God is having a conversation with, uh, himself or the members of the Trinity.
Uh, that could, that, that could be workable here, but the problem with it is, is if you take other scenes in the Bible where God is, you know, in his heavenly throne or in some other-
Mm-hmm
in his divine abode in heaven, and he's speaking to a group of Elohim, for instance, Psalm 82.
You can't have the Trinity there because he's castigating the members of the heavenly host, the divine council, is the language that Psalm 82 uses.
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