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To: TraditionalistMommy
Genesis 1:26...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.

Us: The angels? The animals? Or perhaps other intelligent life in the universe?

I might opt for the latter, as rare as I think it is.

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place In The Cosmos Is Designed For Discovery.

198 posted on 12/11/2006 7:31:53 PM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Us: The angels? The animals? Or perhaps other intelligent life in the universe?

That's the "Royal 'We.'" European kings and queens have a convention of referring to themselves in the first person plural. I do not know why. But the famous statement "We are not amused" has become, in popular lore, pretty much a summary of Victoria's reign.

One would expect the King James (<---HINT!) Bible to observe such conventions. I wouldn't read too much into the plural pronoun.

201 posted on 12/12/2006 5:18:28 AM PST by ReignOfError
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