In the image of God

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• Ex 24:9-11 . .Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Israel,and they saw the God of Israel.

. . . And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone,
and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. But on the nobles of the
children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate
and drank.

• Ex 33:20 . .You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.
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In the references below, verse 27 is deliberately misquoted for a purpose.
Watch for the revision.

Gen 1:26 . .Then God said: Let us make Man in our image, according to our
likeness

Gen 1:27 . . So they created Man in their own image; in the image of God
they created him

Although the revision of verse 27 isn't faithful to the original text, it makes
better sense because the original texts of vs 26 & 27 portray the creation of
Man beginning as the work of a plurality and concluding as the work of a
singularity.
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In the references below, verse 27 is deliberately misquoted for a purpose.
Watch for the revision.

Gen 1:26 . .Then God said: Let us make Man in our image, according to our
likeness

Gen 1:27 . . So they created Man in their own image; in the image of God
they created him: male and female they created him.

Although the revision of verse 27 isn't faithful to the original text, it makes
better sense because the original texts of vs 26 & 27 portray the creation of
Man beginning as the work of a plurality and concluding as the work of a
singularity.
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If it isn’t faithful to the original text then will it produce a faithful understanding of the original text?

 

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If it isn’t faithful to the original text then will it produce a faithful
understanding of the original text?

I'm told by Deut 6:4 that God is a singularity. But until the 'us" and the
"our" of Gen 1:26 and Gen 3:22 are positively identified; I will continue to
insist that God wears more than one hat.

Although God is a singularity, He is somehow a composite unity; sort of like
the components of that curious spectacle depicted by Ezek 1:1-28. I think
that description may be as close to a photograph of God as we're ever going
to get. Moses and some others saw God per Ex 24:9-11 but nothing like
what he and they saw compares to Ezekiel's experience.

BTW: Trinitarians stop their count at three. There's more than three to
reckon with in Ezekiel's description.
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I'm told by Deut 6:4 that God is a singularity. But until the 'us" and the
"our" of Gen 1:26 and Gen 3:22 are positively identified; I will continue to
insist that God wears more than one hat.

Although God is a singularity, He is somehow a composite unity; sort of like
the components of that curious spectacle depicted by Ezek 1:1-28. I think
that description may be as close to a photograph of God as we're ever going
to get. Moses and some others saw God per Ex 24:9-11 but nothing like
what he and they saw compares to Ezekiel's experience.

BTW: Trinitarians stop their count at three. There's more than three to
reckon with in Ezekiel's description.
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The trinitarians stop their count at three. Do you stop your count? If so, where?

I met a trinitarian on a couple of other forums who stopped his count at three but only because, he said, that’s all we know for certain about. He believed there are more and, when asked how many more, he said there could be a million.