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Replying to MissKate13 in post #88]
When God says “ “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;” He has to be speaking of the Word and the Spirit of God. We know that God created the universe and everything in it through the Word.
That is one of the the old-world version of events yes. How do we apply it to modern knowledge of the unfolding universe, that we can identify the "word" in action in said universe?
We know also that the Spirit of God was involved in creation. Psalm 33:6 says, “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.” The breath is the Spirit (ruach - wind, breath, spirit)
Again, how do apply this information to modern world knowledge in identifying the sound in action?
All three were present at creation: God, the Word and the Spirit. It seems very obvious who the “us” is.
Not really. The "God" the "Word" and the "Sound in action" ("Spirit") are definitive aspects of one entity - one being the mind, the other being the thoughts of said mind and the other being the actions of the thoughts of said mind.
There is no point in arguing that at the time of the creation of human beings, that this "mind" was "talking to itself" as we know much had already occurred - such as the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets, and there is no reason to believe that if the Source Creator can breathe something of itself into human forms, then this practice of breathing something of itself into objects to give them life, isn't also part of that process and also happened re galaxies, stars, and planets for reason and purpose which must be necessary in order for the creation to unfold as it has and is still doing.
Thus, we have Source-Mindfulness within the creation, in individual objects which form their own identity as a result and are thus able to be communicated with by Source Mind as co-creators.
So in a way, Source Mind is "talking with itself" when interacting with its conscious and vibrant creation, but also giving the gift of self-awareness to those individual objects created.
that is the "Us" Source Mind is interacting with in the Genesis story, when the word goes out to create Human forms. The breath which gave life and animation to said human forms, is essentially of Source Mind, even if it came through those other minds objectified into functional forms. Even if primarily that mind was the planet mind (Earth) from which we know the human form derived its material from ... and we also know that the material of the Earth derives from stars too. "Let Us Make Human forms and breathe "Us" into said forms" is essentially what happened. The breath itself is the same, regardless of what form it takes on.
Are humans so vain and proud to think that they are the only beings Source Creator breathed life into when literally the whole process of forming the universe as a myriad of objects involved this breath and indeed continues to involve this breath as the very thing which holds it all together?
The Bible does not contradict the broader understanding I have presented here. When it speaks of false gods, it is indeed speaking about human conceptions which remain unaligned to the truth, through ignorance (willful or otherwise) - whether these be expressed outwardly as idols, images from thoughts within a human personality.
But this does not mean that Source Creator did not and does not create gods for the purpose of assisting within the ongoing creation of this universe and allow these minds to come to their own understanding and acceptance re their connection with the purpose of Source Creator and willingness to play their role as intended.
That is also why the prompt "are you not all gods?" was spoken. To remind us of who we are underneath the veils of functional form and ignorance. Not to promote false vainglorious attitudes but to promote remembrance in the attitude of humility.
