YHWH Speaking to Himself

Hi Cousin!

I've got another couple of "Trinity clues" to share with you. These ones can be found in Genesis 1 and Genesis 11. Both passages appear to refer to God speaking to Himself, as if He were in some manner comprised of multiple persons.

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; (Genesis 1:26)

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech." So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:5-9)

Point #1:
One may speculate that God was referring to some other heavenly beings who were present. However, the passages themselves make no reference to anyone else being present.

Point #2:
In both cases it is implied that the parties communicating share miraculous/supernatural/divine powers in that YHWH proposes that "they," not He, take miraculous action.

Point #3:
In Genesis 1:26, YHWH proposes that man be created in "our likeness." So whatever parties are communicating in 1:26, they have a likeness in common.

Point #4:
Whoever YHWH is speaking to in 11:7, he proposes that "they" confuse the languages of the people, implying that it will be a team effort. And then the next two verses goes on to explicitly say that YHWH confused their languages, not YHWH and some other party.

Christians believe that these two passages allude to the idea that God's nature involves a plurality in some manner. And, like I said earlier, the doctrine on the Trinity was formulated as a means of making sense of passages like these, and all the other ones I've been sharing with you.

Mike