Christian Understanding of Trinity3

TRINITY : M. M. NINAN
3. Elohim Ehad
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering
over the waters.3 And God said, (The Word of God)
Rabbi's recognized that Gen 1.26 was a support for the plurality
of God.
In the Midrash Rabbah on Genesis; Rabbi Samuel bar Nahman
in the name of Rabbi Jonathan says that, that at the time when
Moses wrote the Torah he was writing a portion of it daily. But
when he came to this verse which says, "And Elohim said let us
make man in our image after our likeness," Moses said, Master
of the Universe why do you give an excuse to the sectarians to
emphazise plurality within you? God answered to Moses, "You
write and whoever wants to err let him err." In other words,
Moses was particularly instructed to maintain this plurality form
specifically. If that is the case, who is actually erring from the
truth?
On the word Elohim, Simeon ben Joachi says: “Come and see
the mystery of the word Elohim. There are three degrees, and
each degree is by itself alone, and yet they are all one, and
joined together in one, and are not divided from each other.”
Then when we come to the story of fall:
Gen 3.22: And the LORD God said, "The man has now become
like one of us,
The problem here is again the plural use of "us". To whom is
God speaking. If the plurality was a monistic oneness, there is
no one else God could identify as us. The sentence clearly
defines a God class or God community. Again unless we
assume a Gnostic God, we have no other choice than to fall
back to a plural organically united God.
The same usage again appear in :
Gen 11.7: Come, let us go down and confuse their language
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