How do unitarians come to terms with the phrase God used to refer to Himself when He initiated creation of the universe?
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This question is addressed to non-trinitarian who believe that God is a single being and not made up of several beings. How do you come to terms with these truths as exposed in the book of Genesis.
**1. God calls out other beings who are co-creators using the phrase us**
***Genesis 1:26***
>Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
The statement above means that the other beings who are being requested to create or make alongside God have the power or are able to create or make which makes them **co-creators**.
**2. God acknowledges that mankind have become like him but uses the phrase us to refer to Himself** for a second time
***Genesis 3:5***
>For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
Pay attention to the statement **be like God** in the verse above and compare to whats being said below.
***Genesis 3:22***
>And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
God is confirming that man has become like Him but confirms one more time that he is a plural entity by stating that **man has become like one of us**. In the previous verse the speaker uses the phrase **you will become like God**, but God uses the term **us** to refer to Himself which in some way proves trinitarianism as the true doctrine, how do non-trinitarians respond to these truths?
This is because the **us** cannot refer to angels because angels cannot **form, make or create** man out of the dust otherwise fallen angels would have created man out of the elements of other planets since the breath of life originates only from God.
>Creation is an act of God alone, by which, for his own glory, he brought into existence everything in the universe that never before existed.
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