You have no evidence of such as you say about "trinitarians".
The Evidence comes from Scripture - Scripture cannot lie.
I'm really glad you said that......because that is correct.
In Gensesis ch 2 The WORD said "Let Us make man in Our Image according to Our Likeness"
Actually it was Genesis 1:26....and it was God who said.....
But to whom was God speaking?
According to Paul....at Colossians 1:15-17....concerning Jesus....he said....
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: 16 for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." (NASB)
See also Revelation 3:14 where Jesus is called
"the beginning of the creation by God".
So here Paul is describing Jesus as "the image" of his Father, or IOW he is a reflection of his Father, just as the moon is a reflection of the sun....like a photograph is an image of someone but is not that someone....it is what someone looks like.
It goes on to say that he was
"the firstborn of all creation"....but unless there are other children, the term "firstborn" has no meaning. The pre-human Jesus was the firstborn of many sons, but only this son was "begotten" as the first and only direct creation of his Father.....all other things (including the other sons of God) were created "through" this firstborn. This is talking about agency.
So because "all things were created
through him and for him"....how can Jesus be God the Creator?
Proverbs helps us out here....
As wisdom personified, the pre-human Jesus is described this way.....
"The Lord created me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.
23 From eternity I was established,
From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
24 When there were no ocean depths, I was born,
When there were no springs abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was born;
26 While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,
Nor the first dust of the world.
27 When He established the heavens, I was there. . . . .
Then I was beside Him, as a master workman;
And I was His delight daily,
Rejoicing always before Him,
31 Rejoicing in the world, His earth,
And having my delight in the sons of mankind." (Proverbs 8:22-27, 30,31 NASB)
So as a "Master Workman", "the beginning of God's way", Jesus worked with his Father in creation. He existed before any other thing.
So he is the "us" and the "our" in Genesis 1:26....but he is not God, nor is he the Creator.
You will notice in the Hebrew that Genesis 1:1 states that God "created" the heavens and the earth"?
But in Verse 26 he says, let us "make" man in our image....these two different Hebrew words tell us something that is not obvious in English.
The word "create" is "
bārā'" which means "to create, shape, form". To create something means that it did not exist before.
The word "make" is "
ʿāśâ" which means "to do, fashion, accomplish, make"...this is the fabricating or fashioning of things out of already existing materials. God was working with his firstborn son in creation. Not as God, and not as a Creator, but as a 'workman' following an architects blueprints.
So its not looking too good for your triune god in Genesis at this point. If you want to examine scripture...you must do it thoroughly.
THREE Eternal Persons are involved in the Creation of Man.(Exodus 3:15-16)
Nope.....not even close. There is no mention of a triune God in all of the Hebrew scriptures. There is none in the Christian scriptures either.
Exodus 3:13-16..... from the Jewish Tanakh....
"13 And Moses said to God, "Behold I come to the children of Israel, and I say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?"
14 God said to Moses, "Ehyeh asher ehyeh (I will be what I will be)," and He said, "So shall you say to the children of Israel, 'Ehyeh (I will be) has sent me to you.'"
15 And God said further to Moses, "So shall you say to the children of Israel, 'The Lord [יְהֹוָ֞ה] God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is how I should be mentioned in every generation.
16 Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, 'The Lord [יְהֹוָ֞ה] God of your forefathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have surely remembered you and what is being done to you in Egypt."
So where are these three.....? There is just one God and his name is Yahweh [יְהֹוָ֞ה]...Jehovah. Jesus is never once called Yahweh.
THREE times the creation of man is spoken in ONE Command/Sentence.
Genesis 9:6 says "God made man in His own Image"
Therefore all THREE Persons are God who made Man in Genesis 2.
LOL...really? That is a really nice twisting of scripture, and you might just get away with it if you didn't know what the rest of the Bible teaches.....it is one story, about one God (Deuteronomy 6:4) who became the God of Israel.....he was never a trinity...not then...not now.
His son is a creation of his Father and God's Spirit is the administration of his power....used throughout creation and in all of the history of God's people. But never once is God's spirit called "God"...or in fact any other name.
So over to you.....
