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Alter2Ego said:

I responded to that question twice in this thread already. You and Scooter have chosen to ignore that reply because it doesn't line up with what you've both chosen to believe. God is a spirit. Angels are also spirits. Humans are flesh and blood. So your argument that humans are literally created in God's image doesn't fly.

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My point has never been that humans are literally created in the image of God. The details from Genesis 1:26 that I focused on was that more than one person was involved in the act of creating since it says, "let us create in our image". That has been my focus point.

Alter2Ego said:

Below is my explanation of who was being referred to when God said: "Let us make man in our image. . ." at Genesis 1:26, from two different posts within this thread. Focus on the words enlarged and bolded in blue.

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Alter2Ego said:

Genesis 1:26 doesn't do a thing for your trinitarian argument, Scooter, because at that point, there were millions of angels in existence. Jehovah God happened to be speaking to one of them. The same one that came to earth and given the name Jesus.

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The point that you bring up here doesn't address my point. Perhaps you need to provide more details.

You're saying that the "us" and "our" in Genesis 1:26 refers to God speaking to an angel or angels. Sure, that passage involves God speaking, but it also involves the ones behind the "us" and "our" creating. Speaking and creating are two different things.

Alter2Ego said:

So, when Jehovah God said to the "firstborn of all creation" (Colossians 1:15), that is, the very first angel that he created (prior to that special angel's spirit life being transferred into the virgin named Mary and given the name Jesus), Almighty God the Father was not literally going to make humans in his spirit image. He made humans in his image by endowing them with his four outstanding attributes: LOVE, JUSTICE, WISDOM, and POWER. Humans are the only creatures that have those four attributes.

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I'm not so much focused on how we are made in God's image, as I am on the number of people involved in creating. Genesis 1:26 indicates that more than one person was involved in creating since it refers to the creator in a plural form in multiple instances.