Hey Boys! Reflection on the Trinity in Genesis 3:22
I would like to first apologize for my inactivity, for those who don't know me, my name is Howie and I'm a friend of Ethan, we met this summer working together at Aptive. I live in St. Louis and I am a senior at UMSL studying philosophy. But it's been on my mind to think of something to write and share with everyone. I try to do my bible reading in the morning, and previously I have not had the extensive time I would need to sit down to think and reflect and then write about it also with all the homework I also have to do. anyway but I thank the Lord that today I have had time and I found something wonderful that I wanted to share. For some context I am doing a systematic theology class with my church, during our meeting last night we sent over the doctrine of sin, and we took some time to read through Genesis 3 and the Fall of man. and last week was about creation. I have not been through Genesis 1-3 in a long time, a it was very refreshing to read that after having a lot more knowledge of the Bible now. but one of the things I noticed in Genesis 3 was a curious sentence in verse 22. Genesis 3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever” I noticed that here when God spoke he used the plural pronouns "us" now overall this is something that I have been familiar with, I have studied the trinity extensively and even created a document about the biblical proofs for the trinity, (See here) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/19PwtapGsAGnDp89GGc1G6K5zGOnUyOds0gLg1Xd4WSI/edit?usp=sharing) and in Genesis there are 2 other times where God uses plural pronouns in conversation, Genesis 1:26 and Genesis 11:7. Genesis 1:26 is the more famous passage with this and I have heard several other ways to interpret it, such as God is addressing a divine council or heavenly court, or using the royal plural/plural of majesty.