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To: William Terrell

And so God said, let "us" make mankind in "our" image. The words "us" and "our" refer back to Elohim, which is to say God and the host of heaven, or God and the angels. It does not say that man just looks like God, does it?

26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let 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.


116 posted on 09/05/2004 5:29:48 PM PDT by repub32
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To: repub32
And so God said, let "us" make mankind in "our" image. The words "us" and "our" refer back to Elohim, which is to say God and the host of heaven, or God and the angels. It does not say that man just looks like God, does it?

"Us" and "our" don't have any Strong's numbers to refer back to the Hebrew or Greek sources. I take it that you figure that opens the words up to interpretation. You don't think the "us" and "our" are just the royal use of the two words?

153 posted on 09/05/2004 8:48:25 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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