As we can verify by asking any Jew, or reading any Jew literature, Jew scholars and teachers have never thought that
Elohim means several divine persons. They have always seen in the Creator a Personal God. That's the essence of Judaism!
Some scholars think that
Elohim reflects a majestic plural while some others that it reflects the ancient polytheistic background of Israel and Mesopotamia, in which
El was the supreme god among many gods.
In the New Testament, The Creator is presented as a "He", in singular.
This is how Jesus does it
“Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ (Mat 19:4)
Paul does the same
Now He who has created us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the guarantee of the Spirit. (2 Cor 5.5)
And we read in the Book of Revelation:
Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. He said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has come. Worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
THEN JESUS HAD TO HAVE LIED. CAN YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING HE SAID?
JESUS SAID THEY WERE ONE.
BUT COMMON MAN WROTE AND READ AND TRANSLATED AND RETRANSLATED AND RERETRANSLATED THE WORDS YOU READ.
DID THE WRITERS OF SCRIPTURE EVEN HAVE THE CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT WAS YHWH, THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD IN THE BEGINNING.
IF HE DID IT WHO WAS THE US THAT IS IN GEN 1:26.
Ill stop shouting now as my urge to use certain words has gone BUT
I have always believed that the Word was in Genesis doing the speaking.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Now.... re read again Genesis 1~ 9 times it say Then God Said. except it was the Word who did the speaking..... (The Word who became Jesus)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth was a [
a]formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the [
b]surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the [
c]surface of the waters. 3
Then God said, “[
d]Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, “Let there be [
e]an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7 God made the [
f]expanse, and separated the waters that were below the [
g]expanse from the waters that were above the [
h]expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the [
i]expanse “heaven.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good
. 11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout [
j]vegetation, [
k]plants yielding seed,
and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to [
l]their kind [
m]with seed in them”; and it was so. 12 The earth produced [
n]vegetation, [
o]plants yielding seed according to [
p]their kind, and trees bearing fruit [
q]with seed in them, according to [
r]their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 Then God said, “Let there be [
s]lights in the [
t]expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and they shall [
u]serve as signs and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and they [
v]shall serve as lights in the [
w]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light [
x]to govern the day, and the lesser light [
y]to govern the night;
He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the [
z]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and [
aa]to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters [
ab]teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth [
ac]in the open [
ad]expanse of the heavens.” 21 And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to [
ae]their kind: livestock and crawling things and animals of the earth according to [
af]their kind”; and it was so. 25 God made the animals of the earth according to [
ag]their kind, and the livestock according to [
ah]their kind, and everything that crawls on the ground according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “[ai]Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and [
aj]let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that [
ak]moves on the earth.”
29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the [
al]surface of all the earth, and every tree [
am]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30 and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that [
an]moves on the earth [
ao]which has life,
I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. 31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update
