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Some Bible readers will point to Genesis 1:26 as evidence that God is more than one person. Who is the "us" and "our" in verse 26 referring to? Is it an early reference to multi-personality within God?
This video argues there are better ways to understand who the "us" is in this passage.
The fact that it is a common biblical theme for God to be surrounded by a group of angels, and the grammar of the verse, has actually led many trinitarians (and apparently most trinitarian scholars) to abandon Genesis 1:26 as a proof text.
If trinitarian apologists want us to take this example of plural pronouns in Genesis 1:26 seriously enough to conclude that they are showing that God is more than one person, then why shouldn’t we also take examples of singular pronouns seriously, and think they are indicating God is only one person?
Friends, if we read the very next verse, Gen 1:27, it says “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
We are created in “his image”, and the verse uses the singular pronoun “him/his” 3 times.
There may be some room to wonder who the “us” of verse 26 is, but there should be no doubt that the “HE” in verse 27, a singular personal pronoun, is referring to the one God.
In fact, try this, turn to any page of your bible where God speaks, acts, or is mentioned, and count the times God is referred to as “he”, or refers to himself as “I”.
You will find tens of thousands of cases where the God of the Bible is described and self-described as a single person.
Seriously, as soon as this video ends, go and count. Come comment on the video with how many singular personal pronouns referring to God you find! (And for you Hebrew linguists, how many singular verbs, adjectives, and pronominal suffixes?)
Evidence like this is why growing numbers of Christians are abandoning the Trinity doctrine, as a post-apostolic error, in favor of a biblically consistent description of God as one person. We call ourselves unitarian Christians, and we worship the God who says “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh.”(Jeremiah 32:27), we worship the God who Jesus called “my Father and your Father… my God and your God.”
For more information, check out our website, unitarianchristianalliance.com, listen to the Unitarian Christian Alliance Podcast hosted by Mark Cain, or browse other videos on our youtube channel. Join us, bring your bibles, and leave behind the confusion!
Some Bible readers will point to Genesis 1:26 as evidence that God is more than one person. Who is the "us" and "our" in verse 26 referring to? Is it an early reference to multi-personality within God?
This video argues there are better ways to understand who the "us" is in this passage.
The fact that it is a common biblical theme for God to be surrounded by a group of angels, and the grammar of the verse, has actually led many trinitarians (and apparently most trinitarian scholars) to abandon Genesis 1:26 as a proof text.
If trinitarian apologists want us to take this example of plural pronouns in Genesis 1:26 seriously enough to conclude that they are showing that God is more than one person, then why shouldn’t we also take examples of singular pronouns seriously, and think they are indicating God is only one person?
Friends, if we read the very next verse, Gen 1:27, it says “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
We are created in “his image”, and the verse uses the singular pronoun “him/his” 3 times.
There may be some room to wonder who the “us” of verse 26 is, but there should be no doubt that the “HE” in verse 27, a singular personal pronoun, is referring to the one God.
In fact, try this, turn to any page of your bible where God speaks, acts, or is mentioned, and count the times God is referred to as “he”, or refers to himself as “I”.
You will find tens of thousands of cases where the God of the Bible is described and self-described as a single person.
Seriously, as soon as this video ends, go and count. Come comment on the video with how many singular personal pronouns referring to God you find! (And for you Hebrew linguists, how many singular verbs, adjectives, and pronominal suffixes?)
Evidence like this is why growing numbers of Christians are abandoning the Trinity doctrine, as a post-apostolic error, in favor of a biblically consistent description of God as one person. We call ourselves unitarian Christians, and we worship the God who says “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh.”(Jeremiah 32:27), we worship the God who Jesus called “my Father and your Father… my God and your God.”
For more information, check out our website, unitarianchristianalliance.com, listen to the Unitarian Christian Alliance Podcast hosted by Mark Cain, or browse other videos on our youtube channel. Join us, bring your bibles, and leave behind the confusion!
