And again...then I'm done...

Had a discussion with my husband about "day". He's certain that it means 24 hours because it mentions morning and evening, which it does. He thought that meant that God (and I quote) "poofed" adult trees and formed stars. Ok, I'll give you the 24 hr day then, but then I asked him, does it say consecutive days, does it say "week"? Or just day? No, just day...It doesn't say consecutive days. Could it be possible that he created the seedling of a tree that DAY...Then didn't come back "to work" again until after the trees had grown and contained fruit?I asked him, "How old do you believe the earth is? Do you believe it's 5000-6000 yrs old? " No, he believes it's millions of years old..Ok, I say...Young earth advocates believe that if Adam was here, on earth, 5000-6000 yrs ago, and the earth was created 72 hours before that, then the earth must be a YOUNG earth..Right? Then we rehashed whether the days were consecutive and now we're...

Pondering that as we speak.


That's it..No more earth stuff. We have a whole new question coming up in the next few verses.


Genesis 1:24- 1:31


24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
26And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.


Now, today's question is this:

Genesis 1:26 reads:

26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness


Who is "our" in this sentence? Who is he talking to? Is this supposed to be Christ and The Holy Spirit ? It's clearly there that God was speaking to others, but who? I'm going to look into what others think about this verse. I'll come back and address it further.


Tracy