I kind of want to begin by asking you about whether there is one God in the Bible.

Because one of the most important Christian positions is that there is one God.

In three persons, sure, but there is only one God.

And if we turn to the very first book of the Old Testament, the book of Genesis,

and we open it up and we read, we immediately run into something that's a little bit strange and suspicious.

And anybody that I've told to read the Bible who has never really approached the text before,

if they start with Genesis, one of the first questions they'll text me and ask me is,

why does God say us instead of me?

And that's, you don't even get through the first chapter before suddenly you're challenged by

this, who's us question?

And there are a lot of Christians would say, oh, that's the Trinity.

And I don't think there's really good case to make for that since the Trinity develops

hundreds of years later.

So what passage are we talking about here?

Genesis, the word us.

Genesis 1, verse 26, where you have what's called a cohortative, so a first person plural

imperative, where the text states, and God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. And the majority of

scholars out there are in pretty widespread agreement that this seems to be a reference to the

divine counsel, the deliberative body of gods that oversees the functioning of the universe

and maintains cosmic and social stability and

order and all that kind of stuff. And so it sounds like we're having God announced to the other

members of the council, here's what we're going to do. Let's make humanity and we're going to make

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