Two points:
1) It’s not bad grammar to say, ‘...give them’ even if the recipient is singular. The ‘them’ is used when the gender of the person is not known. I’m sure you say it in daily life (if the occasion arose). Similar to (to carry on the dialogue):
- “So, when was their birthday and are they going to have a sleep-over?”
2) Yes, the child would be wrong to talk in the third person... usually. But how many kids (especially girls) do you hear (have you heard personally or anecdotally) say to inanimate toys / dolls something like:
- “Let’s have a cup of tea and some biscuits!”
The main point is that GOD was not talking to HIMSELF (nor an inanimate object).
‘Elohim’, as you see, is a plural MAJESTY. This does not imply a plural PERSON. Angels (messengers / doers of the Will [of God] are also called ‘ELOHIM’.
Be it known that angels are indeed MAJESTIC, powerful and highly intelligent. Although the scriptures warns us not to make figurations of
Heavenly things, we do find that humans make false figurines of what they claim angels look like... who is going to tell them that spirit angels do not LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THOSE figurines... and certainly do not have WINGS!!! For sure, what is the need!?
But Angels certainly helped in the creation of the world and in the creation of the first man, Adam.
Yahweh God spoke to the angels and said he was going to make [a] man in ‘OUR’ Image.
I know it frightens people of trinity belief to hear this but hiding from the truth is not helpful: The powerful and Intelligent angels are IMAGES OF GOD but without the self-Will entity.
Holy Angels are ‘Sons of God’ in Spirit form. This means that they mirror their ‘Father’, their creator, just as mankind in flesh form SHOULD mirror their creator Father if they profess to be Sons of God.
The angels, Spirit Sons of God, are fully capable of doing WHATEVER YAHWEH sets them to do... As such they MUST have the intelligence and POWER to do so BUT to do that and only that as YAHWEH set them.
Humans, sons of God in flesh, are FREE-WILLED but LIMITED to the physical world and our powers and intelligence is limited only to what we can sense with our physical senses in our physical world - at present.
So, even though Yahweh said, “Let US create man in our image” you will note that He went on to create msn in ‘
HIS IMAGE’.
This is not to be glossed over. There were TWO parts to the creation:
1) The BODY of Adam was created - lifeless. Are you going to argue that angels cannot do that? It had no animating spirit in it - it is ‘red-clay’ in a body form (anatomical speculations not required - Moses wasn’t made aware of that aspect!)
2) The lifeless body of Adam was brought to life by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit of God (where else can you read of a similar creation of a pure, sinless, and righteous humankind?): “And the man BECAME A LIVING SOUL”
((Scientifically, we can say that the ‘coming alive’ could be from an existing species that became ‘
God-aware’... perfectly feasible!! But irrelevant to this discussion.))
So, all in all, by my reading, there was not a single attempt at claiming a multiple GOD in the word, “ELOHIM” and therefore would suggest that trinitarian stop using it as a fallacious attempt to claim a trinity expression in the Torah.
