God: "Let Us Make Man In Our Image"

[Jerry Shugart]

Here we see a plurality in the Godhead:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image" (Gen1:26,27).​

Here God is spoken of as being a plurality. This is a case of a "compound unity," a concept which is spoken of here:

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery" (Eph.5:31-32).​

This concept is above the reasoning of our finite minds and that is why Paul calls it a "mystery." Nevertheless, the concept of "compound unity" is found in the Bible and that same concept applies to the Godhead.

The Bible reveals that there is One God in three Divine Persons. That is why we read of the "name" (singular) of God here:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt.28:19).​

Now let us look at this verse again:

"And God ('elohiym) said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God ('elohiym) created man in his own image" (Gen.1:26,27).​

Andrew Jukes writes the following about the name 'elohiym :

"This name then, (in Hebrew, 'elohiym,) is a plural noun, which, though first and primarily used in Holy Scriptures to describe the One true God, our Creator and Redeemer...First then this name, though a plural noun, when used of the one true God is constantly joined with verbs and adjectives in the singular. We are thus prepared, even from the beginning, for the mystery of a plurality in God, who, though He says, 'There is no God besides me,'and 'I am God, and there is none else,' says also, 'Let us make man in our image,after our likeness;' and again, 'The man has become like one of us;' and again at Babel,'Go to, let us go down and confound their language;' and again, in the vision granted to the prophet Isaiah, 'Whom shall we send, and who will go for us.' And this mystery, though hidden from an English reader, comes out again and again in the many other texts of the Holy Scripture.

"For 'Remember thy Creator in the days of they youth,' is literally, 'Remember thy Creators.' Again, 'None saith, Where is God my Maker?' is in the Hebrew, 'God my Makers,' " (Andrew Jukes, The Names of God [Grand Rapids, 1967], 16-17).​

 

[ok doser]

if we're made in His image, and His image is that of a trinity, are we trinity's too?

 

[Jerry Shugart]

if we're made in His image, and His image is that of a trinity, are we trinity's too?

"Man is a 'Trinity.' He is composed of 'Spirit,' 'Soul,' and 'Body.' 1 Thess. 5:23. He is a Trinity because he was made in the 'Image of God.' Gen.1:26. Therefore, like God he is a 'Threefold' being. His 'Spirit' corresponds with 'God the Father,' it can be felt but not seen. His 'Soul' corresponds with 'God the Holy Spirit,' it can neither be seen nor felt. His body corresponds with 'God the Son,' it can be both seen and felt, and makes the man visible" (Clarence Larking, The Spirit World [Glenside, PA: Rev.Clarence Larkin Estate, 1921], 7).​

 

[ok doser]

good answer! :thumb:

 

[meshak]

"Man is a 'Trinity.' He is composed of 'Spirit,' 'Soul,' and 'Body.' 1 Thess. 5:23. He is a Trinity because he was made in the 'Image of God.' Gen.1:26. Therefore, like God he is a 'Threefold' being. His 'Spirit' corresponds with 'God the Father,' it can be felt but not seen. His 'Soul' corresponds with 'God the Holy Spirit,' it can neither be seen nor felt. His body corresponds with 'God the Son,' it can be both seen and felt, and makes the man visible" (Clarence Larking, The Spirit World [Glenside, PA: Rev.Clarence Larkin Estate, 1921], 7).​

So we are all Gods according to his theory.

 

[CherubRam]

"Man is a 'Trinity.' He is composed of 'Spirit,' 'Soul,' and 'Body.' 1 Thess. 5:23. He is a Trinity because he was made in the 'Image of God.' Gen.1:26. Therefore, like God he is a 'Threefold' being. His 'Spirit' corresponds with 'God the Father,' it can be felt but not seen. His 'Soul' corresponds with 'God the Holy Spirit,' it can neither be seen nor felt. His body corresponds with 'God the Son,' it can be both seen and felt, and makes the man visible" (Clarence Larking, The Spirit World [Glenside, PA: Rev.Clarence Larkin Estate, 1921], 7).​

A soul is both body and spirit.

 

[CherubRam]

good answer! :thumb:

Good for silliness.

 

[steko]

So we are all Gods according to his theory.

Nope, the true GOD is infinite uncreated being.

It is impossible to create an uncreated being.

 

[CherubRam]

Here we see a plurality in the Godhead:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image" (Gen1:26,27).​

Here God is spoken of as being a plurality. This is a case of a "compound unity," a concept which is spoken of here:

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery" (Eph.5:31-32).​

This concept is above the reasoning of our finite minds and that is why Paul calls it a "mystery." Nevertheless, the concept of "compound unity" is found in the Bible and that same concept applies to the Godhead.

The Bible reveals that there is One God in three Divine Persons. That is why we read of the "name" (singular) of God here:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt.28:19).​

Now let us look at this verse again:

"And God ('elohiym) said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God ('elohiym) created man in his own image" (Gen.1:26,27).​

Andrew Jakes writes the following about the name 'elohiym :

"This name then, (in Hebrew, 'elohiym,) is a plural noun, which, though first and primarily used in Holy Scriptures to describe the One true God, our Creator and Redeemer...First then this name, though a plural noun, when used of the one true God is constantly joined with verbs and adjectives in the singular. We are thus prepared, even from the beginning, for the mystery of a plurality in God, who, though He says, 'There is no God besides me,'and 'I am God, and there is none else,' says also, 'Let us make man in our image,after our likeness;' and again, 'The man has become like one of us;' and again at Babel,'Go to, let us go down and confound their language;' and again, in the vision granted to the prophet Isaiah, 'Whom shall we send, and who will go for us.' And this mystery, though hidden from an English reader, comes out again and again in the many other texts of the Holy Scripture.

"For 'Remember thy Creator in the days of they youth,' is literally, 'Remember thy Creators.' Again, 'None saith, Where is God my Maker?' is in the Hebrew, 'God my Makers,' " (Andrew Jakes, The Names of God [Grand Rapids, 1967], 16-17).​

[FONT=&quot]Genesis 1:26[/FONT][FONT=&quot],[/FONT][FONT=&quot]27[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
God spoke, making man in (our / their) image and likeness. "Let him dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock animals, and all the earth, and every land animal that walks the earth." 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

"Let us" is AIT. It is not in original scriptures.[/FONT]

 

[S-word]

Jerry Shugart wrote........Here we see a plurality in the Godhead:


"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image" (Gen1:26,27).

Here God is spoken of as being a plurality. This is a case of a "compound unity," a concept which is spoken of here:

S-word........It is Christ and all his brethren, who like himself receive their share of the hidden manna, the glorious body of the heavenly simulacrum, which was the sacrifice that was prepared for us, WHO DESCEND THROUGH TIME, to the barren earth after the great beasts of the earth had been destroyed by a cataclysmic comet strike, who said, [And now let us make man in our image.]


Jerry Shugart wrote........"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery" (Eph.5:31-32).

This concept is above the reasoning of our finite minds and that is why Paul calls it a "mystery." Nevertheless, the concept of "compound unity" is found in the Bible and that same concept applies to the Godhead.

S-word........Rubbish! Any breeder of pedigree dogs, know that if their prize bich is impregnated by some mangy mongrel off the streets, the bich is ruined for life, because any litter she has after that, even if sired by a pedigree male, will inherit some of the characteristic of the street mongrel, for the two had become one by the introduction of the mongrels sperm into her uterus.

The reason why God sent the descendants of Shem into the land of Ham/Egypt, the first born son of Noah, was because of what Canaan the youngest descent of Noah had done to him while he lay naked in his tent in a drunken stupor; Genesis 9: 24; When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son/descendant had done to him, he cursed Canaan, his youngest descendant and blessed his second son Shem to who he then bestowed the blessing of first born. After Noah had transferred the blessing of firstborn to Shem, the Lord God then had to remove from Ham the spirit of Firstborn and implant it into the expanded body of Shem.

Isaac is a prototype of Jesus and he too was born of God’s promise according to the workings of the Holy Spirit, who had the King of Egypt/Ham take Sarai as his wife, and the two became one. Anyone who breeds pedigrees will know that if their pedigree bich is impregnated by a mongrel and semen is introduced into the bich, whether or not conception occurs with that mating, any future offspring from that bich will carry certain characteristics of the mongrel, for the two had become one.

Because of a severe drought in the land of Canaan, Abraham took Sarai into the land of Egypt where they told everyone that Sarai was the sister to Abraham, which she was, or rather his half-sister, the King saw the beautiful one from the north and took her as his wife.

After the poor deceived king was hit with many diseases and realised what the cause of his punishment was, he called Abraham to him, who he had treated so well while Sarai had lived with him as his wife, giving him gifts of flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves and camels etc, and the King said to Abraham, “What have you done to me, why did you say she was your sister and let me take her as 'MY WIFE', (The union between Sarah and the Egyptian king had been consummated) here is your wife take her and get out.

He then gave orders to his men, so they took Abraham and put him out of the country together with his wife and everything he owned, which included the gifts of flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys slaves and camels etc that the poor deceived king had bestowed on Abram while the king was living with Sarai as husband and wife.

Then when the 90 year old Sarai, who, apparently had been unable to ever bear a son, was told by the angel that she would become pregnant by Abraham, the Holy Spirit moved Abraham to travel down south to Mamre, which was in the territory of Abimelech, where again Abraham told Sarah to say that she was his sister, which in fact she was, as she was the biologic daughter of Abrahams biological father, but not of his mother.

Abimelech believed that by taking the aged sister of the wealthiest man in the country, he might share in that wealth. After Sarah had been placed in the harem of Abimelech, the Holy Spirit of God then caused all the pregnant women in the Harem to miscarry and made it impossible for any to fall pregnant.

Undoubtedly the greatest medical minds in that country at that time, would have been called in to administer to all the women in the harem, including Sarah, any plant/drugs that were known to increase fertility and inhibit natural abortions.

Abimelech who had not touched Sarah, was then warned in a dream of the dire consequences if he did not return Sarah to Abraham, which he did the very next morning after the dream, with sheep, cattle and slaves and 1000 pieces of silver as proof to all that Sarah was innocent of any wrong doing. Sarah then became pregnant according to the workings of the Holy Spirit, and Isaac was born with certain genetic characteristics of the King of Egypt who was a descendant of Ham the first born of Noah.

The descendants of Jacob, the second born son of Isaac, who was the second born son of Abraham, the second born son of Terah, a descendant of Shem, the second born son of Noah, were then sent into the land of first born, where for some two hundred years, they interbred with the descendants of Ham, til God destroyed every first born descendant of Ham in that country, who were not of the genetic line of Shem, and it was then that he called his son/Israel in which nation was the spirit of the first born, out of Egypt.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

"Let us" is AIT. It is not in original scriptures.[/FONT]

The added words do nothing to change the meaning of the verse when we consider the context:

"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them" (Gen.1:27).​

Compared to:

"And God said, make man in our image, after our likeness" (Gen.1:26).​

 

[Jerry Shugart]

It is Christ and all his brethren, who like himself receive their share of the hidden manna, the glorious body of the heavenly simulacrum, which was the sacrifice that was prepared for us, WHO DESCEND THROUGH TIME, to the barren earth after the great beasts of the earth had been destroyed by a cataclysmic comet strike, who said, [And now let us make man in our image.

Frankly, I couldn't understand any point which you were attempting to make.

 

[meshak]

Nope, the true GOD is infinite uncreated being.

It is impossible to create an uncreated being.

It is not my theory.

Then why did you agree with that theory that Jerry showed?

 

[Jerry Shugart]

A soul is both body and spirit.

A "soul" is referred as the "inward man" (2 Cor.4:16) by Paul and it has a spirit and has a body but the soul is not those two things. There are separate and distinct things things:

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess.5:23).​

 

[steko]

It is not my theory.

Then why did you agree with that theory that Jerry showed?

Neither Jerry nor those he quoted claimed that when GOD created man in His image that He created another God.
We only affirm that when GOD created man, that He created him in His 'likeness'.....not identical.
And that part of what it means to be created in GOD's image means that He created us a self-conscious, self-determined beings and that there is a triune aspect to our make up.
Likewise, there is triune aspect to the make-up of the universes itself....matter, space and time.
The principle of causality was developed through man's observation that the originating cause is always greater than it's effect and that within the effect there is something transmitted that is similar/like it's originating cause.

 

[jamie]

Neither Jerry nor those he quoted claimed that when GOD created man in His image that He created another God.

Good point. Why would any parent think that his children would be anything like him?

 

[1Mind1Spirit]

Good point. Why would any parent think that his children would be anything like him?

1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

 

[CherubRam]

A "soul" is referred as the "inward man" (2 Cor.4:16) by Paul and it has a spirit and has a body but the soul is not those two things. There are separate and distinct things things:

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess.5:23).​

This should read this way: "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole soul, spirit and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess.5:23).

 

[CherubRam]

Body Soul Spirit
I just wanted to state that a body without a spirit is dead. People are spirits in physical bodies. Spirit is the nature of a person, place, or thing. The brain is of the body, and the mind is of the spirit. There are two kinds of bodies, the one we presently have, and our future spirit body of an unknown substance. Both types are called souls. A soul is both body and spirit.

 

[CherubRam]

A person cannot see a spirit, but a person can see a soul. And because those in the kingdom of God have a soul, that is how we will be able to recognize each other.