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Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth..."

He says "Let us" not me, and he says "in our image" not my image. Which means more than one being.

Is this a typo.
 
God is a trinity. God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit all one God revealed in three.
 
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

us again

so he talked to himself? I'm confused
 
The Bible shows very clearly that there is only one God, and yet that there are three personal distinctions in His complex nature, traditionally referred to as "three Persons in the Godhead" -- God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each is distinct from the others but never acts independently. They are one in nature and purpose. This mystery is called the doctrine of the Trinity, though that term is not used in the Bible. The teaching, however, is present in seed form in the Old Testament and is revealed explicitly in the New Testament. Note passages such as Matthew 28:19; John 10:30, 14:26; 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Our finite minds cannot understand or explain this mystery of God, which is nevertheless a fact. We must accept the truths found in the Word of God by faith even though we ourselves cannot comprehend them fully; read Hebrews 11:1,3,6 and 1 Corinthians 2:5-10;14; 13:12. It is really not surprising that the infinite God should be complex in His nature beyond the ability of finite humans to comprehend! This doctrine is absolutely essential to New Testament Christianity. Theologians have pointed out that if it were not true, the Bible would be unreliable, Christ would not be divine, and His death on the cross would not atone for our sins, being merely the death of a martyr.
 
Ok I might be wrong but Jews don't believe in the new testimant or is it the othr way around, but if u haven't read the new testimant u would thing god was not one person but many people.
 
I think Jews interpret the "Let us make man in our image..." thing as the "royal we." It's the same thing as when kings and queens refer to themselves in the plural. So, Christians (who believe in both the new and old testament) may read the plurality as the Trinity in action, while Jews (who only believe in the old testament) will read it as if God were just using a plural because that is what royal people do, and God is a pretty royal kind of guy. It is possible for a Christian to believe either idea (either the "royal we" or the Trinity thing), but Jewish people are stuck with just the "royal we". Or at least this is how I view things.
 
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Quote[/b] ([toj.cc]El Jefe[sww:D] @ June 13 2004,9:37)]I think Jews interpret the "Let us make man in our image..." thing as the "royal we."
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Either that, or it is referring to the angels' place in creation. There's a pretty staunch angelic tradition in Hebrew midrash, so I think this is probably a larger possibility.
 
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