I'm taking the meaning of your question as being:
If the Trinity is correct and God really is composed of three persons, then why does Man (who was created in God's image) not display any kind of a tri-nature about him whatsoever? Certainly if God possessed such a tri-nature, and such a fundamental tri-nature aspect is conspicuously absent in Man, how then could it be said that Man was made in God's image?
Some trintiarians may point to this rare instance at Gen. 1:26 as 'proof' of a trinity. Yet, the bible throughout overwhelmingly identifies God by the singular person pronouns "I," and "Me," and "He," and "Him". Trinitarians themselves commonly do not refer to their own Triune God as "They," and "Them". This would not be consistent if God really were a trinity.
Actually, when God said "Let us make man in our image" at Gen. 1:26, Jehovah God was speaking to His Son Jesus, His Master Worker, the first-born of all creation (and, possibly, to the rest of the angels also), who were also made in God's image. (Pr. 8:30, 31; also compare John 1:1-3; Col 1:15-17)
The Scriptures clearly show that God is only one person and that person is identified as the Father:
"There is actually to us one God the Father.” (1 Cor. 8:5, 6)
"Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." (Deut. 6:4) ASV
It is interesting that even some trinitarian scholars apparently (inadvertently?) admit that Gal. 3:20 shows God to be one person.
Even the extremely trinitarian The Amplified Bible, which often goes to incredible lengths in its attempt to produce trinitarian “proof” scriptures, renders Gal. 3:20 as:
“there can be no mediator with just one person. Yet God is [only] one PERSON.”
We know, however, that the man created by God to be in God's image and likeness (Adam), the son of God (Luke 3:38), was a *single* person. He could have easily been created with three personalities. But God expressly made him in his image with one mind, one personality: one person.
If the Trinity is correct and God really is composed of three persons, then why does Man (who was created in God's image) not display any kind of a tri-nature about him whatsoever? Certainly if God possessed such a tri-nature, and such a fundamental tri-nature aspect is conspicuously absent in Man, how then could it be said that Man was made in God's image?
Some trintiarians may point to this rare instance at Gen. 1:26 as 'proof' of a trinity. Yet, the bible throughout overwhelmingly identifies God by the singular person pronouns "I," and "Me," and "He," and "Him". Trinitarians themselves commonly do not refer to their own Triune God as "They," and "Them". This would not be consistent if God really were a trinity.
Actually, when God said "Let us make man in our image" at Gen. 1:26, Jehovah God was speaking to His Son Jesus, His Master Worker, the first-born of all creation (and, possibly, to the rest of the angels also), who were also made in God's image. (Pr. 8:30, 31; also compare John 1:1-3; Col 1:15-17)
The Scriptures clearly show that God is only one person and that person is identified as the Father:
"There is actually to us one God the Father.” (1 Cor. 8:5, 6)
"Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." (Deut. 6:4) ASV
It is interesting that even some trinitarian scholars apparently (inadvertently?) admit that Gal. 3:20 shows God to be one person.
Even the extremely trinitarian The Amplified Bible, which often goes to incredible lengths in its attempt to produce trinitarian “proof” scriptures, renders Gal. 3:20 as:
“there can be no mediator with just one person. Yet God is [only] one PERSON.”
We know, however, that the man created by God to be in God's image and likeness (Adam), the son of God (Luke 3:38), was a *single* person. He could have easily been created with three personalities. But God expressly made him in his image with one mind, one personality: one person.
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