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Alex Balilo
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Can Genesis 1:26 be used to infer that God is a "genus"?

Genesis 1:26 ASV

And 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 cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

I was motivated to ask this question to see if the assertion of Nepesh Roi's answer to the question. "How can the Word be God and be with God simultaneously without creating the meaning of two Gods?" is biblical, part of his answer show,

In effect verse 26 says:

‘And God (Elohim) said, let Us make man according to Our own kind (genus)’.

Thus we understand from the Revelation in the Scripture that Elohim=Theos=God is the supreme Kind or Genus or Family.