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srferdave
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God said, “Let us make man in **our **image and likeness”
Who is us? Wasn’t it just God that created man?
Who is us? Wasn’t it just God that created man?
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matahari
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In our image and likeness refers to their endowment with intellect and free will in imitation of God’s perfections of understanding and willing. Some of the Church Fathers saw in the use of the plural here and in Gen. 3:22 a veiled reference to the existence of more than one Person in God.God said, “Let us make man in **our **image and likeness”
Who is us? Wasn’t it just God that created man?
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Deacon_Joseph
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The ‘us’ refers to the Holy Trinity. Jesus became man much later, but He was the Word, and Intellect of the Holy Trinity from the beginning, according to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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LilyM
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‘Us’ could simply be a use of what is often called the ‘royal we’ - a super-dooper formal figure of speech used by or about a person in authority.
If you look at royal proclamations, signed by one individual King or Queen, they will most often begin ‘WE decree’ or ‘WE declare’ … or perhaps more famously think of Queen Victoria’s saying ‘we are not amused!’ when she meant SHE was not amused.
If you look at royal proclamations, signed by one individual King or Queen, they will most often begin ‘WE decree’ or ‘WE declare’ … or perhaps more famously think of Queen Victoria’s saying ‘we are not amused!’ when she meant SHE was not amused.
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juliamajor
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The Hebrew word is 'Elohim" can mean ‘gods’ or can mean a divine council.
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cerad
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So are suggesting we were designed by a committee? That would certainly explain a number of things.The Hebrew word is 'Elohim" can mean ‘gods’ or can mean a divine council.
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thistle
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D-R Bible, Haydock Commentary:God said, “Let us make man in **our **image and likeness”
Who is us? Wasn’t it just God that created man?
Ver. 26. Let us make man to our image. This image of God in man, is not in the body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with understanding and free-will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to insinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity. (Challoner) — Some of the ancient Jews maintained that God here addressed his council, the Angels; but is it probable that he should communicate to them the title of Creator, and a perfect similitude with himself? (Calmet) — Man is possessed of many prerogatives above all other creatures of this visible world: his soul gives him a sort of equality with the Angels; and though his body be taken from the earth, like the brutes, yet even here the beautiful construction, the head erect and looking towards heaven, &c. makes St. Augustine observe, an air of majesty in the human body, which raises man above all terrestrial animals, and brings him in some measure near to the Divinity. As Jesus assumed our human nature, we may assert, that we bear a resemblance to God both in soul and body. Tertullian (de Resur. 5.) says, “Thus that slime, putting on already the image of Christ, who would come in the flesh, was not only the work of God, but also a pledge.” (Haydock) See St. Bernard on Psalm xcix. (Worthington)
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tobinatorstark
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from the Douay-Rheims Challoner versionGod said, “Let us make man in **our **image and likeness”
Who is us? Wasn’t it just God that created man?
“Let us make man to our image”… This image of God in man, is not in the body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with understanding and free will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to insinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity.
the rest continued from the Haydock Bible Commentary
Some of the ancient Jews maintained that God here addressed his council, the Angels; but is it probable that he should communicate to them the title of Creator, and a perfect similitude with himself? (Calmet) — Man is possessed of many prerogatives above all other creatures of this visible world: his soul gives him a sort of equality with the Angels; and though his body be taken from the earth, like the brutes, yet even here the beautiful construction, the head erect and looking towards heaven, &c. makes St. Augustine observe, an air of majesty in the human body, which raises man above all terrestrial animals, and brings him in some measure near to the Divinity. As Jesus assumed our human nature, we may assert, that we bear a resemblance to God both in soul and body. Tertullian (de Resur. 5.) says, “Thus that slime, putting on already the image of Christ, who would come in the flesh, was not only the work of God, but also a pledge.” (Haydock) See St. Bernard on Psalm xcix. (Worthington)
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