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Discernment of the Yuletide or Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture Method? And God said, Let us make man in our image.

Bible - 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 of the earth, and over all the earth, and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth."

The key word in this verse is: "us." Notice it is not "I."

This shows that there is not just 1 God.

There are countless worlds in the universe, and countless Gods.

When other verses of the Bible say that there is only 1 God, that means:

The God of the world we live in, not the God of other worlds.

There are many denominations in Christianity that have been created to deny the God of other worlds. And deliberately interpret this plural form to mean that

This refers to the Trinity of God.

So, take a look at Exodus:

20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt into the house of slavery.

20:3 You shall have no other gods besides me.

The word used here is "I", not "we".

If "we" refers to the Trinity, as many denominations of Christianity say, then

this verse is also saying that

Yahweh alone is God, and that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not God.

(Christianity says: "We" means the Trinity. In this passage, "we" is not used.)

This is what the Christianity says: "We" means the Trinity.

This would be a major contradiction to the Trinity.

So the "I" in scripture must mean: the Triune God.

So, the "we" in scripture, cannot mean the Trinity.