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Hi Joy thank you for this news God bless you for it. Also I know you have knowledge about the Bible. Can you help me yo resolve this issue about the Bible? What does this part means? (Us and ours)? When God is telling us about βlet us and ourβ who is he talking about? Several people? Iβd there is only one God. Genesis 1:26 God said, βLet us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that crawls on the earth.β https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A%2026&version=EHV
Not a Bible scholar either but I think when God says βusβ and βourβ heβs simply referring to Himself as the Holy Trinity in 3 parts: the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Btw God IS glory! Blessings to you & all frens here! πππΊπΈπΈWWG1WGA
Amen Thank you so much and God bless you, this is good because can clarify things for me.
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The Footnote on Bible Gateway says:
Footnotes
Genesis 1:26 The rendering of the Hebrew word adam is a key issue in this section. Adam may refer to man, mankind, or Adam.
This translation retains the article where it occurs with adam (the man) and retains singular or plural forms of verbs and pronouns according to the Hebrew text.
I'm not a Bible Scholar but this sounds correct to my understanding..
It is a figure of speech called Heterosis (of Number): The plural for the singular. "This is so put when great excellence or magnitude is denoted. Our attention is thus called to the importance of the thing or matter concerning which the statement is made." - Figures of Speech by E.W. Bullinger (pg. 529)
Modern day example is a Monarch when speaking of themselves ("We, the Queen...")