re: Is the Christian God the same God of Judaism?

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(Please, be gentle)

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May God forgive me if I am not gentle with my brothers and sisters in the faith. I want to be firm about the truth about God but I don't want to harm my brothers in the faith at the same time. Hopefully I am not doing that.

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I think there is. I realize that I could be completely wrong, but, hear me out. I’m interested to hear your thoughts on this perspective.

Genesis 1:26 (NASB95): ?Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;

We are triune beings- consisting of mind, body and spirit. I’m not saying that we are gods, but that we are created in the image of God. Your thoughts?

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I agree that we are created in the image of God, but we are not the exact image of God (like the Son is as stated in Col. 1:15-16), even prior to the fall. There are communicable attributes and incommunicable attributes that God has, and God has vested humanity with communicable attributes like love, goodness, and kindness, yet has not vested us with incommunicable attributes like His aseity, omnipotence, or omnipresence.

While there are examples of unity and trinity in certain senses in our experience, there is no exact analogy to God in our experience. One of the reasons for this is that God is simple rather than complex, meaning He is not made up of parts, and God is fully God in all three of His persons.

In the example of mind, body, and spirit, our mind is part of who we are but not all of who we are, and it is the same with our body and spirit; those three things are parts of our singular being but one part can exist without the others. However, the Father is not merely a part of God, nor is the Son merely a part of God, nor the Spirit merely a part of God, as all three are fully God, as God doesn't consist of parts nor consist separately from the other persons. This analogy seems to be consistent with the view called partialism.

Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding the analogy, though.