Recently I began reading the Bible, and only a dozen pages in I’m surprised by my misperceptions. I went to Roman Catholic schools my entire life so I’d read certain excerpts here and there and figured I had it all summed up. This naivety is what made me never look deeper, but now I confess I’m curious.
And indeed, there are some curious things in there.
For example. King James version. Genesis 1:26 reads, in part, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Immediately following that, Genesis 1:27 reads, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.
Did you catch that? I cross-referenced this passage with another version too. In both, God refers to himself as “us” and “our” whereas when God is referred to, he is an individual. This is well prior to Jesus ascending to Heaven, so we can exclude the Holy Trinity, although perhaps the “us” in question refers to God and the Holy Spirit? The dualism is a possibility. But I don’t think so, I think it’s a concession that man created God. And I think it’s an admittance that even if man didn’t create God, man interpreted him how we could.
Continued…
