To help us understand Gen. 1:26, we need to see what the situation was like in heaven when God spoke these words. The Bible says that the Father, Jehovah God created His son Jesus as the very first of all creation:
Rev. 3:14 says that Jesus is "the Beginning of the creation of God". NASB
John 1:18 says that Jesus is God's "only BEGOTTEN Son". ASV
Col. 1:15 says that Jesus is "the FIRSTBORN of all creation".
So when God said "Let us make man in our image" at Gen. 1:26, God was speaking to His Son Jesus, His Master Worker, the first-born of all creation, *through* whom all other things came into existence. (Prov. 8:30, 31; also compare John 1:1-3; Col 1:15-17)
Some trintiarians may point to this 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.
Rev. 3:14 says that Jesus is "the Beginning of the creation of God". NASB
John 1:18 says that Jesus is God's "only BEGOTTEN Son". ASV
Col. 1:15 says that Jesus is "the FIRSTBORN of all creation".
So when God said "Let us make man in our image" at Gen. 1:26, God was speaking to His Son Jesus, His Master Worker, the first-born of all creation, *through* whom all other things came into existence. (Prov. 8:30, 31; also compare John 1:1-3; Col 1:15-17)
Some trintiarians may point to this 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.
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