Trinity Proof Texts Confused with Plural of Majesty

Modern Bible scholars tend to misinterpret majestic plural passages as Trinity proof texts. This is because they do not take into account the Hebraic writing style of the Old Testament.  Below, I will demonstrate multiple verses where God and other people refer to themselves in the 3rd person/plural form.

 

 

Genesis 19:24

English Standard Version

24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

 

 

1 Kings 8:1 English Standard Version

8 Then SOLOMON assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before KING SOLOMON in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

 

NOTE: There is only one Solomon.

 

 

Amos 4:11 English Standard Version 11 “I overthrew some of you, as when GOD overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand  plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to ME,” declares the LORD. 

NOTE: I, God, me, and Lord is the same.

 

 

1 Samuel 20:12-13

English Standard Version

12 And JONATHAN said to David, “The Lord, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you? 13 But should it please my father to do you harm, the Lord do so to JONATHAN and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.

 

NOTE: Jonathan refers to himself in 3rd person.

 

Esther 8:7-8 English Standard Version 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. 8 But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.”

 

NOTE: The King  Ahasuerus refers to himself in 3rd person.

 

Genesis 4:23 English Standard Version 23 Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear MY voice; you wives of LAMECH, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. 

NOTE: Lamech refers to himself in 3rd person.

Genesis 17:23

English Standard Version

23 Then ABRAHAM took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of ABRAHAM'S house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

 

NOTE: Abraham is referred to in 3rd person.

 

Ezekiel 11:24

English Standard Version

24 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.

 

NOTE: The Spirit and the Spirit of God are the same.

 

Exodus 24:1

English Standard Version

24 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.

 

NOTE: He and the Lord are the same.

 

Exodus 3:12

English Standard Version

12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

 

NOTE: He and God are the same.

 

 

Numbers 19:1-2

English Standard Version

19 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

 

NOTE: The Lord is referred to in 3rd person.

 

 

 

Emphatic Semitic triplet

 

Holy, Holy, Holy (Isaiah 6:3)

Temple Lord, Temple Lord, Temple Lord (Jeremiah 7:4)

Land, Land, Land (Jeremiah 22:29)

Ruin, Ruin, Ruin (Ezekiel 21:27)

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Luke 13:33-34)

Who is, Who was, and Who is to come (Revelation 1:4, 1:8)

Holy, Holy, Holy (Revelation 4:8)

Woe, Woe, Woe (Revelation 8:13)

 

 

 

 

Isaiah 6:3

English Standard Version

3 And one called to another and said:

 

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

the whole earth is full of his glory!”

 

Jeremiah 7:4

English Standard Version

4 Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

 

Jeremiah 22:29 English Standard Version 29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!

 

 

Ezekiel 21:27

English Standard Version

27 A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.

 

 

Luke 13:33-34

English Standard Version

33 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

 

Revelation 1:4 English Standard Version  4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

 

Revelation 1:8 English Standard Version 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 4:8

English Standard Version

8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

 

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,

    who was and is and is to come!”

 

Revelation 8:13

English Standard Version

13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Royal WE Passages

 

Genesis 1:26 English Standard Version 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

 

Genesis 3:22 English Standard Version 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

 

Genesis 11:7 English Standard Version 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”

 

 

Daniel 2:36 English Standard Version 36 “This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.

 

NOTE: The "We" doesn't make Daniel multi-personal. This is referred to as the Royal We. The "US" in Genesis can be God speaking to his wisdom (personified) or just telling the angels what he is about to do. An image bearer can simply be defined as one knowing "good and evil or a representative of God."

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