Let’s take Genesis 1:26:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let 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. (KJV).
Who is the "us" in that verse?
Most of Christianity is trinitarian. When a trinitarian reads Genesis 1:26 they take it as proof of the doctrine of the trinity. God is three, yet one. However, Genesis was written several thousand years after the events recorded in the book. Some suggest it was written by Moses but many scholars question this assertion and quite frankly we can not be sure who wrote Genesis.
Genesis 1:26 was written upwards to 2,000 years before the birth of Christ so therefore, the early Israelites knew nothing of Jesus. There was no Church and no Christian scripture. All that the readers of the day had were the various Old Testament books, none of which remotely teach anything about God being a Trinity.
When a Jew read the book of Genesis and came to Genesis 1:26 where God says Let us make man in our image…….after our likeness…….what do you think their conclusion would have been? Certainly they would not have had any inkling that God was a Trinity, three in one, as Christians assert.
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