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NASB | Genesis 1:26 ¶ Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:26 ¶ Then God said, "Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth." [Ps 104:30; Heb 1:2; 11:3] |
Subject: Genesis 3:22 Who is God referring to"us" |
Bible Note: When rational people communicate -- and we may assume that Moses was rational and the Holy Spirit is rational -- they tend to use the same words in the same context the same way. This would be particularly true in a single narrative like we have here in the creation and fall of man. We have two places where God is speaking to Himself and using a plural first-person pronoun. What we say about the first instance must necessarily be true about what we say about the second, and vice versa. Scripture interprets Scripture. Since we know from other places in the Scriptures that all three Persons of the Trinity were involved in creation, and that God does not need the counsel of anything in creation, we may safely infer that the use of this particular pronoun signified the three Persons of the Trinity. In Him, Doc |