| Here is a question from a brother in Christ. | | | | participation in his work. First of all notice that after |
| Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, | | | | God says, "let us" first and then the scripture says in |
| after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the | | | | verse 27, "So God created man in his own image, in |
| fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over | | | | the image of God created he him; male and female |
| the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every | | | | created he them." |
| creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. | | | | See that Moses used the SINGULAR personal |
| Why did God speak in the plural when He made man? | | | | pronouns "HIS own image" "image of God created HE |
| That's a sign, that every unrepented sinner will perish in | | | | him, male and female created HE them." |
| the judgment, that the righteous shall be saved by the | | | | So the plural pronoun by definition means he was |
| mercy of God. He gave another sign at the burning | | | | speaking to someone who WAS NOT HIMSELF, ie |
| bush. What was it when He caught His runaway | | | | not God. God is ONE person as evidenced by the |
| prophet? "I have heard the cries of My people, and I've | | | | THOUSANDS of scriptures that use singular personal |
| remembered My covenant"? He gave another sign | | | | pronouns. In this verse it clearly shows that he was |
| there, that He was a covenant-keeping God, that He | | | | speaking to someone OTHER than himself. |
| remembered everything that He said, every promise | | | | A great example of this is in Isaiah 6. |
| that He made. He gave a sign at the burning bush, | | | | Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live |
| "And I've come down to deliver them." Watch God in | | | | coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs |
| His ways of work. When He created the heavens and | | | | from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and |
| earth, He called the Angels together, and He said, "Let | | | | said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is |
| us." Every place in the Scripture where He did anything | | | | taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice |
| mostly, "Not Me, but My Father." But when it come to | | | | of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go |
| the plan of redemption, He came alone; nobody was | | | | for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. |
| with Him. He was the only One that could come. An | | | | God is speaking to the angelic beings surrounding his |
| Angel couldn't do it. Another man called His son, | | | | throne. He says whom shall I singular pronoun pointing |
| couldn't do it. One called something else, a holy virgin, or | | | | to ONE PERSON send and whom shall go for US (the |
| a holy mother, or--or some saint, couldn't do it. God had | | | | singular PERSON was speaking to the angelic beings |
| to come. From the sermon a Super Sign. | | | | who were NOT him). |
| He was speaking to angels because he desired their | | | | |