Genesis 1:26 and 3:22.

Plurals. Comments?

@chaney3 said
Genesis 1:26 and 3:22.

Plurals. Comments?

@divegeester said
Do we have to look the scriptures up or just guess?

Which translations?

@chaney3 said
Genesis 1:26 and 3:22.

Plurals. Comments?

I think to start to solve this problem you have to begin with process of elimination.

Who besides God Himself was involved in the creation of man ? Consult other portions of the Bible for help on the question.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, ... "( v.26a)

So God created man in His own image, . .." (v.27a)

@ghost-of-a-duke said
“We are not amused.” - Queen Victoria.

Was the Queen indicating there was more than one of her?

@chaney3 said
Genesis 1:26 and 3:22.

Plurals. Comments?

@suzianne said
Contrary to many in the British Isles, the Queen is not God.

@suzianne said
For clarity, please see John 1:1.

@chaney3

There is no "We" there.
There is an "Us".

In Isaiah 6 you have a "We" in God's speaking.

@sonship

In Isaiah 6 you have a "We" in God's speaking.

"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? "(Isa.6:8)

@chaney3 said
The Trinity is your answer?

@suzianne said
This is what makes Elohim plural.

It would be difficult to imagine a doctrine more hostile to the uncompromising monotheism preached in the Jewish Scriptures than the Christian claim that there is a plurality within the divine nature of God. Yet, armed with little knowledge of the Hebrew language, many Trinitarians brazenly argue that the name of God, as it appears in the first verse in the Bible, “proves” there are three distinct Persons in the godhead...

The word Elohim possesses a plural intensive syntax and is singular in meaning. In Hebrew, the suffix ים (im), mainly indicates a masculine plural. However with Elohim the construction is grammatically singular, (i.e. it governs a singular verb or adjective) when referring to the God of Israel, but grammatically plural elohim (i.e. taking a plural verb or adjective) when used of pagan divinities (Psalms 96:5; 97:7).

This is self-evident from the fact that the verb “created” בָּרָה (bara) in Genesis 1:1 is in the singular. This linguistic pattern is well known and widely used throughout the Jewish Scriptures. For example, I am certain that many readers are familiar with the Hebrew word חַיִים (chayim), meaning “life.” Notice that this word contains the identical plural suffix “im,” as inElohim, yet it repeatedly means “life”, in the singular, throughout the Bible...

https://outreachjudaism.org/elohim-plural/

@thinkofone said
Evidently such a claim is due to a desire to "prove" the trinity and an ignorance of Hebrew. The following are small snippets from a rather lengthy explanation of why the claim is false:

It would be difficult to imagine a doctrine more hostile to the uncompromising monotheism preached in the Jewish Scriptures than the Christian claim that there is a plurality withi ...[text shortened]... ”, in the singular, throughout the Bible...

https://outreachjudaism.org/elohim-plural/

@ThinkOfOne

The word Elohim possesses a plural intensive syntax and is singular in meaning.