Proving that the Trinity does not exist in Genesis 1:26, is not the same thing as proving that the Holy Spirit does not exist in Genesis 1:2. The Holy Spirit is described in Genesis 1:2 as hovering over the face of the deep. However, while there may be no evidence for the Trinity in Genesis 1:26, it is very clear that there is another Person of the Godhead present in Genesis 1 besides the Father. He is absolutely correct about all of this. He further argues that there are no Trinitarian phrases in the Old Testament and that the ‘plural of Majesty’ does not exist in Hebrew. He then asserts that seeing the Trinity in Genesis 1:26 is reading the New Testament back into the Old Testament and that this is not a sound interpretive method for discerning what an Old Testament writer was thinking. He provides a footnote which suggests that you read a book written by another Old Testament scholar who deals with the grammar used in Genesis 1:26. Heiser says that the reason that it is the divine council that is being spoken to in Genesis 1:26 is because technical research in Hebrew grammar and exegesis has shown that the Trinity is not a coherent explanation (see page 39 of the Kindle edition of the Unseen Realm). In his book The Unseen Realm, Michael Heiser teaches that God was speaking to the divine council in Genesis 1:26 when He said: ‘… let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’ (see page 39 of the Kindle edition of the Unseen Realm).
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