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06 Apr 2009, 12:52 am

Genesis 1:26 wrote:
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

I believe this is a good question, at least I think so, given that I'm not that much familiar with the issue, why does it say "Let us" and "our image" and would this differ from the hebrew Bible?

I remember that has been used to support the idea of the Trinity, in which it seems to represent the three personifications, if you will, of God, but it doesn't explicitly say it though, if it isn't the case, then there is always the question of why is it that it was said in plural rather than singular.


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06 Apr 2009, 2:20 am

greenblue wrote:

I remember that has been used to support the idea of the Trinity, in which it seems to represent the three personifications, if you will, of God, but it doesn't explicitly say it though, if it isn't the case, then there is always the question of why is it that it was said in plural rather than singular.


The plural usage will support duity, fourity, fivity etc. just as well. In addition have you ever set (literally) to yourself or another "Let's see" as in "Let us see"? Hmmm? Hmmm?

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06 Apr 2009, 8:58 am

The 'us' is in reference to the other gods of the Caananite pantheon; it was written before anybody had the idea of only worshipping Yahweh.



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06 Apr 2009, 11:40 am

i think god needed a woman, because duh. usually you need a woman to reproduce


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06 Apr 2009, 11:55 am

richardbenson wrote:
i think god needed a woman, because duh. usually you need a woman to reproduce


Therefore, in the usual fashion we all use, God made his original woman out of Adam's rib. Theological shorthand for ribosome, I assume.



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06 Apr 2009, 12:07 pm

the rib thing in the bible is really genetic engeenering, something im shure the Et's have down pat and we are now starting to understand


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06 Apr 2009, 12:14 pm

richardbenson wrote:
the rib thing in the bible is really genetic engeenering, something im shure the Et's have down pat and we are now starting to understand


Where do you get your information about extraterrestrials?



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06 Apr 2009, 12:18 pm

Arcanyn wrote:
The 'us' is in reference to the other gods of the Caananite pantheon; it was written before anybody had the idea of only worshipping Yahweh.


Same usage occurs in 3:22 and in 2:4 God's name YHWH is used:

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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,



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06 Apr 2009, 12:19 pm

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Where do you get your information about extraterrestrials?
the sumerians


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06 Apr 2009, 12:42 pm

richardbenson wrote:
Sand wrote:
Where do you get your information about extraterrestrials?
the sumerians


Equine Feces. The Sumerians were pre-scientific and superstitious. They believed in horoscopes.

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06 Apr 2009, 12:46 pm

ruveyn wrote:
richardbenson wrote:
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Where do you get your information about extraterrestrials?
the sumerians


Equine Feces. The Sumerians were pre-scientific and superstitious. They believed in horoscopes.

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I think richardbenson is trying to refer to the Bible as "a bunch of Babylonian myths" or some other likewise comment which would be to say that it is plagiarized from Sumerian myths. As for the ET thing, that is a main idea of the cult of Raeliens...



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06 Apr 2009, 12:47 pm

well they were doing something right. most of the old testament storys, such as noahs flood and such were ripped off from them by almost everybody including the jews. plus they had an exellent knowlege of our solar system thousands of years before the telescope was invented, i believe they knew about every planet if im not mistaken. i wonder who told them all about this? take a wild guess


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06 Apr 2009, 12:50 pm

God didn't make man in his image, man made god in his image.


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06 Apr 2009, 12:51 pm

Henriksson wrote:
God didn't make man in his image, man made god in his image.
oh get on down with your bad self why dont you for teh win! :star:


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06 Apr 2009, 12:54 pm

richardbenson wrote:
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God didn't make man in his image, man made god in his image.
oh get on down with your bad self why dont you for teh win! :star:

I've re-read this gibberish a couple of times, and I still don't understand. :scratch:


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06 Apr 2009, 12:59 pm

you know whats up, and by the way congratulations. you just won


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