Interesting, who do you suppose the US and OUR..are??
Could really get deep here. Is that what you want?
Proof that reading the first page of the book is cool.
The Trinity is a very basic tenant of Christianity, seems pretty clear to me.
I had thought that it was merely the "royal we" in English, but it goes at least back to the Latin Vulgate Bible with "et ait faciamus hominem ad imaginem" where faciamus is first person plural for make.
” ... who do you suppose the US and OUR..are??”
The angels. They’ve never liked us.
When He made the angels, they were sentient already, with free will and knowledge of good and evil. Some of them struck out on their own and left His company voluntarily.
That P’Od God verily.
We humans were pretty much just the head of the food chain in the garden, a sinecure, walking around like buck nekkid kings of creations critters. But Eve was hoodwinked an talked Adam into it, and we took the knowledge for ourselves and were promptly booted out.
Here’s the sauce:
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. (Genesis 3:22–24)
Angels: “Yes!” Apparently God wanted docile, empty headed mini-angels, but now facing more rebellion in the future but unwilling to slay us—were pretty much thrown under the bus.
Yes, I think the angels resented us. The ancient Greeks had similar beliefs: that the gods resented mortals because of our mortality. Everything is sweeter, better when you know the times you will enjoy these things are as numbered as the hairs on our heads. Immortality must make one jaded.
Anyway, I suppose the angels thought, like oldest children or children of a first marriage: “What? We’re chopped liver? We’re not good enough? He had to have more? And they die!” But He still kept us around.
There’s going to be a quiz on this.
Like Queen Victoria said, "We are not amused."
The use of the 'royal we' (the 'pluralis majestatis' or 'majestic plural') had previously been restricted, as one might expect, to royalty; for example, Queen Victoria's celebrated 'we are not amused'.