Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God, He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
In the very beginning of creation, we get a picture of the community of God as He creates man. We have the reference to the Trinity in our focus passage which reveals the community of God, and man was created by God to be part of that community.
Nowhere in the scriptures will we find that angels have that same kind of relationship with the Godhead as man does. This means there is also an unbridgeable gap between human life and angelic life. Man was created in the image of God and nowhere can we find that to be said of angels. Angels cannot have the same kind of relationship of love and fellowship with God that we can.
The worldview paints God as a solitary old man or refer to Him as the man (singular) up in heaven. The God of the Bible is actually a community of three divine persons in one being of substance, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Dwelling together, they are coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal. The Trinity dwell together in a perfect community of oneness by means of their mutual encircling and interpenetration: without these principles of divine community, God simply does not exist.
In Deuteronomy 6:4 we read: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!” The word one in this passage comes from the Hebrew word echad, which means utterly unique; however, it also speaks of a composite unity in diversity which is confirmed by the fact that echad also had a plural form, ahadim. Echad means “to unite, to join together, to be in unity,” While echad can also be used as the numeral one. It clearly means “the only one, the incomparable.” Throughout the Scriptures the community of God is referred to over and over when the Trinity is referred to. This reveals to us how important community with God is and how He desires us to be part of His community, for which we were created.
God’s community is perfect in relationship as the Trinity dwells and communions together in perfect unity both singular as well as being One God.
Dale LaFrance (please look up John 1:1-5 )
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