Answering Islam·Apr 27, 2026 Ambrose, Augustine, Peter of Lombard on Gen. 1:26
In this post I will cite the works of three intellectual and spiritual giants of the Faith to show how they interpreted Genesis 1:26-27, particularly verse, where God uses plural pronouns when speaking of making man in the image and likeness of God. The readers will see that these magnificent men of the Church took the plural as proof that the Trinity created mankind in their image and likeness. They flat out rejected that God was either speaking to the angels or to himself as a singular PerHexameron, Paradise, And Cain And Abel St Ambrose Catholic Theology Fathers·On the Christian Faith (De fide)