It's OK. Thanks for sending the link, interesting and useful to know. I do see that explanation as metal gymnastics, but it's OK for you go on believing it. Good to see you looked into it.
Genesis 1:26 "Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness"
This is clearly the grammar of more than one entity - and the bible does have the vibe of more than one personality acting. Not warn man of flood coming - vs - also help one of them to build an ark. It suggests more than one actor.
Then there is the big problem of pre-bible stories matching the bible, proving the bible to be real, but being different just in the number of Gods. A single God is not the god of all bible stories in the bible, the conclusion is inescapable, given the evidence.
Doesn't mean there is not one primary God, just that the bible is about more than one character playing god, it could be none of them are the ultimate one primary god.
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Is the context that we were given only plants and fruits to eat?
I thought the first line of the bible is "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"
That's right. That's the English translation. In Hebrew the word translated as God is "Elohim" which is the plural of Eloah.
https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/oneness-of-god-the-meaning-of-elohim
This first paragraph states "In biblical Hebrew, many singular abstractions are expressed in the plural form, e.g., rachamim, “compassion”"
It's OK. Thanks for sending the link, interesting and useful to know. I do see that explanation as metal gymnastics, but it's OK for you go on believing it. Good to see you looked into it.
Genesis 1:26 "Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness"
This is clearly the grammar of more than one entity - and the bible does have the vibe of more than one personality acting. Not warn man of flood coming - vs - also help one of them to build an ark. It suggests more than one actor.
Then there is the big problem of pre-bible stories matching the bible, proving the bible to be real, but being different just in the number of Gods. A single God is not the god of all bible stories in the bible, the conclusion is inescapable, given the evidence.
Doesn't mean there is not one primary God, just that the bible is about more than one character playing god, it could be none of them are the ultimate one primary god.
No I'm open minded. I know people have probably subverted the original. I have no hard beliefs on this subject.
Interesting I'm reading that chapter now.
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Is the context that we were given only plants and fruits to eat?