In the Bible, when God said "Come let us make man" Who was the "Us" referred to?
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In the original Hebrew there are three different names used for God.  There is YHVH (aka the unpronounceable name), Elohim and Adonoy.  What's referred to in Genesis 1:26 is Elohim, because it was Elohim who created the world.  \n\nNow, the thing to know about Elohim is that it has a plural suffix "im," but it's treated as a singular masculine noun in the Hebrew.  Etymologically it appears plural, but grammatically it's treated as a singular.  This is highly confusing to say the least.\n\nHowever, in bypassing the paradoxical plurality of God, some scholars have interpreted this particular phrase to mean that God was speaking to the entirety of creation, the US then being all the things that God had to that point brought into creation.  Thus, Man is in the image of not just God but of all of creation, the microcosmos.
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:}\nSIN\n\nGOD\n\nMAN\n\nJesus was the God-Man who became sin for us.
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Well, I am a believer but I will answer your question anyway---\n\nGod said: “Let us make man in our image.” (Ge 1:26) What a historic pronouncement! And what a singular position in history Adam, the “son of God,” holds—the first human creature! (Lu 3:38) Adam was the crowning glory of God's earthly creative works, not only because of the timing near the close of six creative epochs but, more importantly, because “in God’s image he created him.” (Ge 1:27) This is why the perfect man Adam, and his degenerate offspring to a much lesser degree, possessed mental powers and abilities far superior to all other earthly creatures.\nMade in the likeness of his Grand Creator, Adam had the divine attributes of love, wisdom, justice, and power; hence he possessed a sense of morality involving a conscience, something altogether new in the sphere of earthly life. In the image of God, Adam was to be a global administrator and have in subjection the sea and land creatures and the fowl of the air.\nIt was not necessary for Adam to be a spirit creature, in whole or in part, to possess Godlike qualities. God formed man out of the dust particles of the ground, put in him the force of life so that he became a living soul, and gave him the ability to reflect the image and likeness of his Creator. “The first man is out of the earth and made of dust.” “The first man Adam became a living soul.” (Ge 2:7; 1Co 15:45, 47) That was in the year 4026 B.C.E. It was likely in the fall of the year, for mankind’s most ancient calendars began counting time in the autumn around October 1, or at the first new moon of the lunar civil year. \nI hope this helps an unbeliever to believe.
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In Genesis 1:26, God said, "let us make people in our image..."\n\nMan didn't create God by writing the bible.  The bible was litterally God-breathed, or inspired by God.
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Who told you God was the first to make laws for humans?  Who is this God you are referring to?  Sodom and gomorrah is passe, now it is called anarchism.
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Adam was made in the image of God and the angels.\n\nGenesis 1:26\nThen God said"let us make man in OUR image, occording to OUR likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on earth."\n\nGenesis 1:27\n\nSo God created man in his own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.\n\nGenesis 1:28\n\nThen God blessed them, and God said to them," be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
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Man was created by God on the 6th day of creation. He was made of the dust of the earth, and God gave him life. His name was Adam. Read about him in the Bible in the very first pages.
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It was Moses.  In the OT, he was called by the Spirit of God to climb Mt. Sinai.  After Moses saw the burning bush, he asked God if he could see Him.  God said "No, you'd die if you looked directly at me" (I'm paraphrasing, of course).  So God told Moses to go to a cleft in the rock and hide his face and God would pass by.  That was all Moses could handle (as a human being).
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Jesus Christ\n\nMic 5:2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.\n\nMic 5:2 - But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,.... But though Jerusalem should be besieged and taken, and the land of Judea laid waste, yet, before all this should be, the Messiah should be born in Bethlehem, of which this is a prophecy, as is evident from Mat_2:4; the place is called by both the names it went by, to point it out the more distinctly, and with the greater certainty, Gen_35:19; the former signifies "the house of bread", and a proper place for Christ to be born in, who is the bread of life; and it has the name of the latter from its fruitfulness, being a place of pasture, and as we find it was at the time of our Lord's birth; for near it shepherds were then watching over their flocks; and it is here added, to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebulun, Jos_19:15; from which tribe the Messiah was not to come, but from the tribe of Judah; and in which this Bethlehem was, and therefore called, by Matthew, Bethlehem in the land of Judah; as it appears this was, from Rth_1:1.
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GET REAL\n\nMANKIND ADAM\n\nWe all have read about Cain and Abel (Gen.4:8-17)\nHow Cain slew Abel, and God cursed Cain and drove him out.\nThen Cain said (Gen.4:14) “that every one that findeth me shall slay me”\nWho is Cain worried about?\nThen in (Gen.4:17) And Cain knew his wife\nWhere did Cain find a wife?\n\nThe answer is in the Hebrew text (Gen.1:26 and Gen.2:7).\n\nGen.1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, \nafter our likeness: ….\nThe word “man” (Gen.1:26) \nin Hebrew text looks like this ( אדם ) \nwith no article means “MANKIND”\nThe word “man” (Gen.1:26) transliterated is (adam).\n\nGen.2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, ….\nThe word “man” (Gen.2:7) \nin Hebrew text looks like this ( את־האדם ) \nwith article and particle means “THIS SAME MAN ADAM”.\nThe word “man” (Gen.2:7) transliterated is (eth-Ha adham).\n\nSo on the sixth day God created or made MANKIND.\n\nOn the eighth day God formed THIS SAME MAN ADAM.
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Immanuel, "God is with us." The simple fact is that it is quite common in the Bible for human beings to be given names that have the purpose of declaring or reflecting a particular attribute of God, e.g., Eliab, Eliada, Elzaphan, Eliakim, Elisha, Eleazar, Tavel, Gedaliah.\n\nIn Isaiah 7:14 the Hebrew states "hinei ha'almah harah veyoledet ben" "behold (hineih) the young woman (ha - the almah- young woman) is pregnant (harah) and shall give birth (ve-and yoledet-shall give birth) to a son (ben)". The Christians translate this as "behold a virgin shall give birth." They have made two mistakes (probably deliberate) in the one verse. They mistranslate "ha" as "a" instead of "the". They mistranslate "almah" as "virgin", when in fact the Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah". Aside from the fact that if you read the context of that prediction you will see clearly that it is predicting an event that was supposed to happen and be seen by king Achaz who lived 700 years before Jesus!
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This site tells you, I just searched u.s. motto and this was the first site. Hopes it helps.\n\nhttp://www.coinresource.com/articles/in_god_we_trust.htm
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God ,made everything!John 1:1-3 In the begening was the word,and the word was with God,and the word was God.He was in the begening with God.All things came into being by him,and apart from him nothing came into being.
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Hi Lois7mat!\n\nSince you asked a biblical question, lets check what the Bible says about that:\n\nIn Genesis 1: 26-27\n\nThen God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."\n\nSo God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them\n\nFurther in the book of Hebrews, it is also written:\n\nBut there is a place where someone has testified:\n   "What is man that you are mindful of him,\n      the son of man that you care for him?\n    You made him a little[a] lower than the angels;\n      you crowned him with glory and honor\n      and put everything under his feet?\n\nSince the Bible is clear about this thing, then the most important creation would be MAN (when I say man, I refer to both man and woman).\n\nI hope this helps you.
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MANKIND ADAM\n\nWe all have read about Cain and Abel (Gen.4:8-17)\nHow Cain slew Abel, and God cursed Cain and drove him out.\nThen Cain said (Gen.4:14) “that every one that findeth me shall slay me”\nWho is Cain worried about?\nThen in (Gen.4:17) And Cain knew his wife\nWhere did Cain find a wife?\n\nThe answer is in the Hebrew text (Gen.1:26 and Gen.2:7).\n\nGen.1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, \nafter our likeness: ….\nThe word “man” (Gen.1:26) \nin Hebrew text looks like this ( אדם ) \nwith no article means “MANKIND”\nThe word “man” (Gen.1:26) transliterated is (adam).\n\nGen.2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, ….\nThe word “man” (Gen.2:7) \nin Hebrew text looks like this ( את־האדם ) \nwith article and particle means “THIS SAME MAN ADAM”.\nThe word “man” (Gen.2:7) transliterated is (eth-Ha adham).\n\n\nSo on the sixth day God created or made MANKIND.\n\nOn the eighth day God formed THIS SAME MAN ADAM.
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seriously , what do you think, "God said let Us make man in Our image" and He created Adam from the dust of the ground"    so why was man created, because God wanted companionship and praise, and adoration, what do you think, to read the Scriptures can give you and others some idea of what "the meaning of life is" what Life is for" of course reading the Scriptures one must ask the Lord for understanding, and guidence, i can see no other meanings or reasons for life, personal and otherwise, it is all to praise HIm, "even the trees clap their hands" the creatures of the sea praise Him,
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Not only our country; but, the entire world!!!\n\nGal 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: \n\nJoh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.