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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: GEN 1:26,who are us and our ? |
Bible Note: Hi prayon, Excuse me if I correct what I think is a typographical mistake on your part. You typed "our" in lower case; and I would like to talk about why I would make it "Our" likeness. I would have people recognize also that it doesn't say Our "likenesses", plural. The triune God is one. But I would also have people recognize that Jesus in the beginning was One. John 1:2, "He [This One] was in the beginning with God." This One in the gospel of John was the One who separated the light from the darkness in Genesis, I would think. I would also have people know that Jesus came to earth in the likeness of men but He came as the Righteous One, even the Man Jesus Christ. Scepter35, I see the triune God in the Man Jesus Christ as He says in Genesis 1:26, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness." I don't see (as the Amplified suggests or at least infers) the triune God in each capitalized pronoun of Us, Our, Our. Rather, I see each of the three Persons represented by a single pronoun. I would compare Genesis 1:26 with Galatians 4:4 Gen. 1:26, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..." Galatians 4:4, "But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son,..." Even though born of a woman, Jesus was God's Son. We also can be "sons" of God when we have the Spirit of God within us. From the heart, Ray |
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