In Our Likeness & Image

 

Genesis 1:26-27
New International Version

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.”
So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

This is creation according to the Bible.  The verses before Genesis 1:26 address what God created on each of the days before He created mankind.

But right now, let's just stay with mankind and the fact that mankind was created IN THEIR IMAGE AND IN THEIR LIKENESS.

I use the word THEIR, because the verse uses the word OUR and that word implies more than one.

Have you ever stopped to think the word OUR is used?

Is there more than one God?

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Are the writers speaking of God-Jesus-the Holy Ghost?

And if it is the latter, then why has that not been made clear, or was it just meant to be ASSUMED?

When God (THEM) created mankind, they created both male and female, not just male and certainly not just female.

Therefore, is God male or female?

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Is God both male and female?

The latter cannot be true because if you make people in one's image, then why make both male and female, why not just make an individual that is both male and female?

Now, I believe this is explained later when God realizes man needs a companion and taking a rib from Adam, creates Eve.

But, if this was really the case, why was not that clarification pointed out in Genesis?

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Did someone try to fix that mistake later with the Garden of Eden story?

What I am pointing out are some inconsistencies that are later corrected in later books of the Bible.  Why was there correction needed anyway, if the Bible had truly been inspired by God through the hand of man?

All along my spiritual growth from 8 years old to 18, I was told not to question, just accept the faith as it had been presented to me.  This is what faith is all about.  Belief without proof.

That just leads me to more questions.