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Did the Father God of Abrahem, Jesus and Mohammed have a frog in His pocket?
WHO WAS "US" IN ALMOST EVERY VERSION OF THE BIBLE?King James Bible
And God[GMO=1010101010101] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let [o1GNO10101010101101011=f010100=n010010101=(xy)10101=d10130101012=f1=(6x4)]them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Like the fragmented Chaldean Oracles reports, was the God of Abraham married to Hecate?
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Did the Father God of Abrahem, Jesus and Mohammed have a frog in His pocket? (Original Post)
Jeffersons Ghost
May 2014
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dballance
(5,756 posts)1. It was a French mouse - Oui /nt
nxylas
(6,440 posts)2. God is unity in trinity
Therefore the "us" refers to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is Sunday-School level stuff.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)3. +1 n/t
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)4. You might also think of the "royal we"
As in Queen Victoria's, "We are not amused."
rug
(82,333 posts)5. There's an explanation in the footnote.
* [1:26] Let us make: in the ancient Near East, and sometimes in the Bible, God was imagined as presiding over an assembly of heavenly beings who deliberated and decided about matters on earth (1 Kgs 22:1922; Is 6:8; Ps 29:12; 82; 89:67; Jb 1:6; 2:1; 38: 7). This scene accounts for the plural form here and in Gn 11: 7 (Let us then go down
). Israels God was always considered Most High over the heavenly beings. Human beings: Hebrew ādām is here the generic term for humankind; in the first five chapters of Genesis it is the proper name Adam only at 4:25 and 5:15. In our image, after our likeness: image and likeness (virtually synonyms) express the worth of human beings who have value in themselves (human blood may not be shed in 9:6 because of this image of God) and in their task, dominion (1:28), which promotes the rule of God over the universe.
http://www.usccb.org/bible/gn/1:27#01001026-l