Venerable Bede wrote:Ashmoria wrote:
if youre a Christian
if you are a jew it means none of that.
its all later Christian interpretation guided by believe in jesus.
All later Jewish interpretations are also guided by denial of him. For instance, Jews started teaching that God's use of plural pronouns in referring to himself (let us make man in our image) is him talking to his angels; this reading was developed simply to counter Trinitarin readings, but that would mean the angels were co-creators with YHWH, which is not proper.
Not necessarily. Early Hebrews were polytheistic. They believed in many gods, though they swore allegiance to YHWH alone, on paper anyway. How we think they viewed the YHWH's position in that cosmological order is controversial even among individual faculty here at Yale. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that the text claim God was speaking to his angels, or some heavenly court of lesser gods, etc. What we do know however is that the Anti-Trinitarian argument some Jewish Scholars have made in recent years is that YHWH is using the "Royal We," an odd singular plural used by monarchs in feudal Europe. Ancient Hebrew had no such grammatical quirk.
We do know that God is speaking to somebody when he says "us" the question is who? It's possible He's referring to Asherah, who some have argued, could be YHWH's wife that was edited out by the Deuteronomist Reforms.
Could be Christ, could be his angels. It's a matter of interpretation as it stands.