Today I want to provide debate over an often misinterpreted passage of Scripture. The Trinitarians want this vague verse to be translated to the idea of three gods or multiple gods. The problem with their misinterpretation is that it greatly contradicts the full context of the Bible.

So here’s the passage. I will point out the one verse and why it cannot refer to multiple gods.

(Genesis 1:25-28 NIV)
“25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

The Trinitarians will promote a false theology of multiple gods from verse 26 and the words “Let us … in our image” despite that immediately following those words are verse 27 where there are no plural words used to describe God. If their theology were correct, the next verse would have used the words “they” and “their”. At the very least they are jumping to conclusions with no analytical reasoning to support their theology.

So what could the words “us and our” in verse 26 represent that doesn’t contradict the many Scriptures that record that there is only one God?

I’ve discussed this with God in prayer and will give you the insight that He gave me, but I ALWAYS want you to discuss this with God yourself.

Moses is attributed to writing the first five books of the Bible. Moses was NOT alive at creation. He was born thousands of years later. He wrote the creation story as he spent time hearing God’s voice in prayer. So to be clear, Moses did not real-time overhear God speaking to anyone in the Garden. God met Moses where he was in the day and time of his life. We tend to want to read those verses as if Moses was standing beside God during creation. He wasn’t. Moses’ role was to tell the story from God’s perspective.

The “us” and “our” words represented 1) the part that God plays in creating the spiritual body of each person AND 2) the part that the human parents play in the biological human reproduction process. God is giving credit to the human parents for being fruitful and increasing in number as they are commanded to in the next sentence, verse 28. God was also foreshadowing when He would spend 33 years wearing human flesh delivered through the human reproduction process.

It is very important to read verses in context and to understand the whole counsel of the Scriptures.

Please let me remind you of the many Scriptures that record that there is only one God.

(Isaiah 43:10-11 NIV)
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.

Study: Exodus 20:3-7, Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Mark 12:29-30, Malachi 2:20, Isaiah 44:6-8, Isaiah 45:2-6; Isaiah 46:8-9; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, 1 Timothy 2:5, James 2:19, Ephesians 4:4-6, Revelation 4:2-3