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Why did God refer to himself as “us” and “our” in Genesis 1:26?
Categories: God the Father, Trinity, Holy Spirit, Christology, Jesus, Bible | 2009 | by Ken Horn | no commentsThe concept of the Trinity enlarges the concept of God found in the Old Testament and makes certain Old Testament passages more understandable. For example, some 2,500 times the word for God is Elohim, plural, instead of El, singular. There are plural pronouns used to describe the one God: “Let us make man” (Genesis 1:26); “Man is become as one of us” (Genesis 3:22); “Remember Thy Creators” (Ecclesiastes 12:1, literal); “Rejoice in His Makers” (Psalm 149:2, literal).
And, in Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (NKJV), the word for “name” is singular, representing three persons.
The plural pronouns are an indicator of the trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — the Three in One.
Ken Horn
