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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Sat May 3, 2014, 01:56 AM May 2014

Did the Father God of Abrahem, Jesus and Mohammed have a frog in His pocket?

WHO WAS "US" IN ALMOST EVERY VERSION OF THE BIBLE?

King James Bible
And God[GMO=1010101010101] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let [o1GNO10101010101101011=f010100=n010010101=(xy)10101=d10130101012=f1=(6x4)]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.

Like the fragmented Chaldean Oracles reports, was the God of Abraham married to Hecate?
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Did the Father God of Abrahem, Jesus and Mohammed have a frog in His pocket? (Original Post) Jeffersons Ghost May 2014 OP
It was a French mouse - Oui /nt dballance May 2014 #1
God is unity in trinity nxylas May 2014 #2
+1 n/t ColesCountyDem May 2014 #3
You might also think of the "royal we" Fortinbras Armstrong May 2014 #4
There's an explanation in the footnote. rug May 2014 #5

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
2. God is unity in trinity
Sat May 3, 2014, 05:24 AM
May 2014

Therefore the "us" refers to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is Sunday-School level stuff.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
5. There's an explanation in the footnote.
Sat May 3, 2014, 09:10 AM
May 2014
* [1:26] Let us make: in the ancient Near East, and sometimes in the Bible, God was imagined as presiding over an assembly of heavenly beings who deliberated and decided about matters on earth (1 Kgs 22:19–22; Is 6:8; Ps 29:1–2; 82; 89:6–7; Jb 1:6; 2:1; 38: 7). This scene accounts for the plural form here and in Gn 11: 7 (“Let us then go down…”). Israel’s God was always considered “Most High” over the heavenly beings. Human beings: Hebrew ’ādām is here the generic term for humankind; in the first five chapters of Genesis it is the proper name Adam only at 4:25 and 5:1–5. In our image, after our likeness: “image” and “likeness” (virtually synonyms) express the worth of human beings who have value in themselves (human blood may not be shed in 9:6 because of this image of God) and in their task, dominion (1:28), which promotes the rule of God over the universe.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/gn/1:27#01001026-l
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