Who Was the Bible Referring to When He Said Let Us Make Man in Our Own Image?
1) Direct Answer
It was the one God speaking in counsel with His own Word—His Logos—the expression of Himself by which He would create all things and later be manifested in Jesus Christ. It is not three persons, and it is not angels.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Genesis 1:26-27 says, “Let us make man in our image… So God created man in his own image.” The very next verse returns to the singular—one Creator.
- Isaiah 44:24: “I am the LORD that maketh all things… that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.” God did not share creation with another person.
- John 1:1-3: “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God… All things were made by him.” The Word is God’s own expressed thought made manifest—God creating by His Word.
- Ephesians 1:11: He “worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” God’s “us” is His own divine counsel—God communing with His Word.
- 1 Timothy 3:16: “God was manifest in the flesh.” The image God had in view would be fully revealed in Christ, the true image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15).
Now notice: Genesis 1 shows man created in God’s image (spirit nature and dominion), and Genesis 2:7 shows man formed from the dust. First the image; then the body.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If “us” meant three divine persons, we would have three creators—yet God says He made all things alone and by Himself (Isaiah 44:24).
- Angels did not create the world.
- “Us” is God deliberating with His own Word, His plan, His self-expression. As a man speaks within himself, God spoke with His Logos.
- “In our image” points to God’s nature reflected in man—spirit, holiness, and dominion—and finds its perfect fulfillment when God Himself was manifested in Christ.
4) Reinforcing Statement
It’s one God, not three. The “us” is the one Lord counseling with His own Word, creating all things and purposing to reveal Himself perfectly in Jesus Christ.
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Go wake Jesus
63-1103 §67
I said, "Well, you fail to see what He was. He was both man and God," see. I said, "He was a man while He was weeping. That's right. But when He stood by the grave of that man that had been dead four days, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth!' and a man that had been dead four days raised to life and come out of the grave, that was more than a man." That's right. I said, "Truly, He was a man when He come down from the mountain that night hungry, and looked all over ... a fig tree to find something to eat. He was a man w...
The same Jesus tonight
55-0826 §10
And the woman said, "I can prove to you that He was nothing but a man. I can prove by the Bible that He wasn't divine." I said, "I want to see it done." She said, "Here, Saint John 11, when He was going down to Lazarus' grave, the Bible said, He wept." Said, "Nothing but a man could weep." I said, "Oh, lady, look. He was a man when He was weeping. But when He stood there with the tears in His eyes, and there laid a man dead, his soul four days journey, his body had rotten, He said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man...
Hebrews, Chapter 2, part 3
57-0828 §25
And now the Logos that went out of God, which was the Logos, all this begin to form into a body-shape. And this body-shape was called, in the scholar's teaching, "Logos." The Logos that went out of God. In other words, a better word for it was what we call a theophany. Theophany is a human body that's glorified. Not exactly with flesh and blood like it will be in it's glorified stage, but it is of a form of a human body that doesn't eat, neither does it drink, but it's a body. A body that's waiting for us, as soon...
Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §26
Now, the first man ... now, He made the first man in His image, and we are returning back to that image, (that's right), to our first created image. When God created me, William Branham, it was before the foundation of the world, He made my being, my spirit. I wasn't conscious of anything as far as I know of, but I was there. Oh, I don't believe you're getting it. But now, just a minute, Jesus told the disciples that He knew them before the foundation of the world, and Paul said here that He chose us in Him before...
The Queen of Sheba
60-0401E §1
[Pastor introduces Brother Lamsa.] ... he speaks the language and can read the language and read the original documents in which the New Testament was written. So with him, it is so wonderful that he can read directly from the original script the very words that Jesus and the disciples spoke and wrote. He felt that these translations that we have are not always correct and true. And that's where the criticism comes in, because he criticizes the King James version, and some people think that St. Paul preached from t...