Trinity @ Creation
I'm going to paraphrase somethings I read last night from Warren Weirsbe's "Be Basic". In Genesis 1:26 God says "Let US make man in OUR image." Us & our are plural nouns meaning He was talking to someone else with HIS image. We understand that the angels don't have God's image. So who was he speaking to? It must have been the Son of God.
Now the most powerful thing I learned was that in the Hebrew text the creator, or God, is called Elohim. Elohim means majesty in Hebrew, but that's not the cool part. In the English language we have two tenses for nouns, singular & plural; man : men, dog : dogs. In the Hebrew language there are 3 tenses for nouns, singular, dual & plural (or more than 2). So in the hebrew language they might say dog for 1, dogs for 2, and they would have a third word meaning more than 2 dogs-say dogses. Now understanding that, Weirsbe says that Elohim is the plural form of Majesty. Meaning the author of Genesis is referring to a majesty that is not singular, not even dual but more than 2--Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
That was very powerful for me. I hope it grabs someone else as well.
Now the most powerful thing I learned was that in the Hebrew text the creator, or God, is called Elohim. Elohim means majesty in Hebrew, but that's not the cool part. In the English language we have two tenses for nouns, singular & plural; man : men, dog : dogs. In the Hebrew language there are 3 tenses for nouns, singular, dual & plural (or more than 2). So in the hebrew language they might say dog for 1, dogs for 2, and they would have a third word meaning more than 2 dogs-say dogses. Now understanding that, Weirsbe says that Elohim is the plural form of Majesty. Meaning the author of Genesis is referring to a majesty that is not singular, not even dual but more than 2--Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
That was very powerful for me. I hope it grabs someone else as well.
