Who was God talking to? When He said...... “Let us make man.”

In Genesis 1:26 God said, “Let us make man.”


Our intent is to clear the dust and smoke that trinitarians have stirred up around this passage of Scripture. The word make in Genesis 1:26 covers the entirety of man’s journey. It goes farther than the word create in Genesis 1:27: “So God created man.”

The word make in the previous verse means the completion of something and that nothing else can be added. Thus we wish to clarify the difference between the words create, form, and make. After God created the heavens and the earth (First day through the fifth day) “there was not a man to till the ground” (Genesis 2:5). God formed man out of the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7). Then He placed breath, or the spirit of life, into this man; and the man became a living soul. However, he was not yet completed in God’s eternal plan. In Isaiah 43:6, God declared: I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

The preceding verses of Scripture indicate that there is a difference between create, form, and make. When God said, “Let us make man,” it embraced the entire journey of man from the time he was created in the plan or mind of God, to the time he was formed, to the end of time when he will be fully “made” or “completed.” Trinitarians take the position that God was talking to other persons in the Godhead when He said, “Let us make man.” However, there is no scriptural proof of this. God used a term that covers the entirety of man’s existence from the time he was created in the mind of God until the resurrection of man in the likeness of the image of God.

Isaiah 46:9-10 shows that God knows and contemplates the future: Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

Moreover, according to Romans 4:17, God calls things that do not yet exist as though they did exist. Thus, when God uttered the proclamation “Let us make man in our image,” it embraced all the journey of man from the time that he was created until he is completed.



The Church’s Role

We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10).


The Church has an important part in this great work. When God said, “Let us make man,” He included the Church’s part in preparing man to participate in the resurrection when man will be complete. The apostle Paul stated, “We are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building” (I Corinthians 3:9).

Today, the Church has the duties of preaching the gospel, baptizing those who repent of their sins in Jesus Name, and instructing people in the Word of God. That is why Jesus, speaking of the Church, said, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12).

The Church, then, plays a big part in bringing man to the place where he can be transformed into the likeness of God’s image when this life is ended. Philippians 3:21 states that Jesus will take our vile bodies and fashion them like unto His glorious body. But the Church has to get man ready for that. It must take the Word of God and, through the ministry, convert men. The Church must instruct man how to be born again, how to be baptized, and how to live that he might participate in the great and final event when he will be made completely in the likeness of his Creator and Redeemer.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? (Romans 10:13-15). It is not through foolish preaching, but by the foolishness of preaching, that the Church and the ministry have a great part in the making of man (I Corinthians 1:21). Through the preaching of God’s Word, the Church helps people to believe in God and to be ready so that when the end comes the eternal Spirit of God can perform the last work on the earthly form of man and glorify him.

The eternal Spirit will make man’s body like the glorious body of Jesus Christ, which is God’s body (Philippians 3:21). After this nothing else will need to be done to man. Man will then truly be “made.” God’s utterance, “Let us make man,” will have been fulfilled completely. Perhaps God was also speaking to individuals when He said, “Let us make man,” as it requires action on the part of everyone to share the gospel. Then people must obey it and act upon what the Bible tells them to do. God permits everyone who obeys His Word to actually take part in the “making” of man.



Adam and Eve, Type of Christ and the Church

“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” (Genesis 2:21-23). In both Romans and I Corinthians Paul referred to Adam and Christ, showing that Adam was a type of Christ.

Let us notice that, in comparing the two, Adam went to sleep, and while he slept, there was taken from his side that which brought into existence Eve, his wife. While Jesus slept in death on the cross, His side was also pierced: “And forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34), the elements by which He hath chosen to bring forth His church, His bride. Adam only had one wife. Jesus only had one Church. Eve was the mother of all living. The Church is the mother of us all. (Galatians 4:26; Revelation 21:2). Adam said Eve was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones. To be in the bride of Christ, both the blood and water are essential and placed in God’s plan of salvation.

Understand that AS Eve was IN Adam, SO was the Church in God ...... According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (Ephesians 1:4). The US in the New Testament has reference to the Church. So when God said “Let us make man" the US is the Church. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10).