1) A complete understanding of how God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one is incomprehensible to humans in our physical plane. That would be like having a two dimensional picture understand how we can exist in three dimensions. However, an analogy that provides some insight (though is far from perfect) is the way steam and ice are both water, though they have different forms and properties. In a similar manner, God and Jesus are essentially the same, but have different properties.
2) I presume you mean to compare Gen 1:26 and Gen 2:7, given that 1:2 makes no mention of any step of actual creation. Some people would have you believe that Gen 2:7 is simply stating what happened in 1:26 in greater detail. I personally believe these were two separate acts, as 1:26 uses a Hebrew word that means “to create” whereas 2:7 uses words that specifically relate to forming out of an existing material, especially in terms of a potter forming an object out of clay.
During the other creation steps, God spoke and the creation step occured immediately, there was no time taken in the creation. In Gen 2:7, God clearly takes some time in His creation of Adam.
Finally, in Gen 1:26 God clearly creates male and female at the same time, whereas in Genesis 2, there is clearly some time (greater than a day) between when Adam was formed and Eve was formed.
I know these three points in and of themselves are not irrefutable evidence, but these are three significant points that at least suggest a review of the traditional creation should be in order.
3) I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that Man was first created as all spirit. When this verse says “let Us make man in Our image,” it’s not referring to creating a spirit-entity. Nothing else that was created in chapter one was of spirit-matter; interpreting this verse as man being spirit-matter is inconsistent with proper analysis procedures, and is inconsistent with other parts of Scripture. This verse is simply stating that physically and spiritually, man was fashioned after the likeness of God.

Commentary by David
Posted on: 9/9/2007 05:58 am

Dear Sir.

Right now I’m asking the Holy Spirit to guide me to questions in concerns;
1)How are God and Jesus One?
2)Explain Gen. 1:2 and Gen. and Gen.2:7
3)”Question” according to Gen.1:2, “man was first created as all spirit; it seem to me that Man was then formed in Gen.2:7 and if that’s so, “is this the same spirit in Gen.1:1 and the same spirit that resurrected Jesus?
4)Was there any time when God and Jesus not as one while Jesus walk on earth? Also, ‘when Jesus said, “when you see me, “you also see the Father.

Commentary by andrew delk
Posted on: 9/9/2007 00:48 am

I don’t think this is difficult at all. John 1 states, “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In chapter 17 verse 5, John quotes Jesus as saying “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was,” indicating that Jesus was with the Father at Creation.

Put simply, the “us” used here refers to God the Father and Jesus the Son, as well as the Holy Spirit, the presence of whom is indicated in verse 2 of this chapter, “and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” this is the first indication of the triune nature of God.

Commentary by David
Posted on: 7/5/2007 03:17 am

Let us, indicates multiple beings. Would this mean that God is part of a society? Is it the royal, we?
Our immage, mentally, or phisically or both?
Literalists will have a hard time with this line.

Regards
DL

Commentary by Greatest I am
Posted on: 6/2/2007 18:42 pm