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.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Lean not unto thy own understanding
65-0120 §32
The identification that's God's own interpretation is the manifestation of the promise. Maybe I'll say it, make it a little plainer. When God speaks a word, He doesn't need any man or any woman, or no one else, to say what that means. When He said... "Well," you say, "God meant this." God means just what He says He means, see. Now, how does He interpret His own Word? By fulfilling it! The Bible said, "A virgin shall conceive." She did. That don't need any interpretation. God said, "Let there be light," and there wa...
The Mark of the Beast
54-0513 §56
Notice, when King Nebuchadnezzar, in the beginning back yonder, when the Gentile age was issued in... Let's watch how it come in. And the way it come in, you'll find out it goes out the same way. We know that there is a beginning of time of grace for the Gentiles, and an ending of time. Is that right? Now, watch. When King Nebuchadnezzar ... when Daniel was sent down there, a smart prophet, when all the rest of the Jews had kind of humbled down and was bowing to the Romans ... or, to the Babylonians. But there was...
Hear ye Him
57-0125 §16
I said, "Look. You fail to see God in Christ." I said, "Let Him prove that He wept when He went to the grave of Lazarus: he was a man weeping. But when He stood and pulled His little frail body together, throwed his head-cloak aside and looked back and said, 'Lazarus, come forth' and a man who'd been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man." That's right. And it is true that He was a man when He came off the mountain hungry, trying to look on a tree to find food to feed His physic...
Abraham's covenant confirmed
61-0210 §45
Hybrid. It's hybrid so much in this... America's gone so much on hybrid, till the people is becoming hybrid. You know, you have to go back to the original. Now, let me show you where science claims that we come from---animal life. That breaks them down. If anything breeds... Genesis 1:26 says ... I believe it said let every seed bring forth of its kind, every seed after its kind. And you cross that seed up, it cannot breed itself back again. No, sir. It's finished when... That shows that we never evoluted from monk...
Faith
58-0315 §18
But now, this Philistine come out. He said, "Let's not have a great bloodshed. Let's not have any trouble. Let's just you choose you a man and we'll choose us a man---and that's me---and let us come out here and fight. If I whip your man, then you all serve us; if he whips me, then we will serve you." Sure. Who would tackle that great big giant? If there was any man in the whole Israelite army that would been physically able, would have been Saul. Saul was the king. And the Bible said that he was head and shoulders...