📖 Genesis 1:26 (KJV)

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”

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🔍 Literal Explanation: Who is “Us”?

🔹 1. Scripture must interpret Scripture

The Bible never contradicts itself. So we must look at the next verse and other precepts to define “us.”

📖 Genesis 1:27 (KJV)

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him…”

• There is no plural used in the action.
• “He” created — not “they.”
• This shows the “us” is not multiple gods or persons, because only one did the creating.

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🔹 2. God Is One, Not Many

📖 Deuteronomy 6:4

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.”

📖 Isaiah 44:24

“I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.”

➤ God created by Himself — there were no other persons assisting.

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🔹 3. God Speaks to His Own Counsel (or Manifestations)

This is an example of God speaking within Himself — similar to when He says:

📖 Isaiah 46:10

“My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.”

➤ He refers to His own will, wisdom, Word, and Spirit — not separate persons, but the facets of His own being.

📖 John 1:1

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

📖 Ephesians 1:11

“…who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.”

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🔹 4. “Us” Does Not Mean Trinity or Separate Persons

There is not a single verse in all of Scripture that says:

• God is three persons
• The Word or Spirit is a separate being
• Anyone besides God alone created man

📖 Malachi 2:10

“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?”

📖 1 Timothy 3:16

“God was manifest in the flesh…” — not “one of the persons of God”

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🔹 5. Possible Scriptural Explanations for “Us”

Interpretation	Based On Scripture?	Notes
God talking to angels	❌ No verse says angels created man
God talking to other persons in a Trinity	❌ No verse says God is more than one person
God speaking to His own Word/Spirit	✅ John 1:1, Isa. 46:10
Plural of majesty (royal speech)	✅ Supported by Gen. 1:27, Deut. 6:4, Isa. 44:24

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✅ Literal Conclusion (According to the Template)

• “Us” in Genesis 1:26 is God speaking to or within His own counsel — not to other divine persons.
• Only one God created man, and He did it alone (Isa. 44:24).
• The verse affirms God’s complexity, not plurality of persons.
• Genesis 1:27 clears up the confusion: the Creator is one being who made man in His image.

📖 Isaiah 45:5

“I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me…”