Dear Conrad - This isn't much of a deep question but it made me wonder.  I've started
re-reading the Bible and have found that in Genesis 1:26-27 it says, "God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image."  When God is speaking in Genesis 1:26 He says 'us' and 'our' as if there were more then one God or God had more then one personality.  Is there some hidden meaning in this I'm not discovering? Thank you, Jason

Jason,

This is a great question that speaks to the heart of the difference between Christianity and any other religion. 

God exists in the Trinity.  God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The Bible says it is one God, but three 'persons'. 

The major difference is that other major religions say that there is a one-person God.  This poses a dilemma.

For God to truly be God, he mustn't need anything. If He needed anything, He wouldn't be God. 

So let's take one attribute of God - God is love.  Can God be a God of love is there is nothing to love? 

Can we call a person a 'car driver' if they've never driven a car?  No.  To be a car driver, there first must be a car, and the he would need to drive it. 

In the same way, God cannot be a God of love if there is nothing to love.  He would be a God without love, or a God that wishes he could love, if there was nothing to love.

So now the one-person-one-God religions run into a problem.  God cannot be a God of love because there is nothing to love.  If God is a God of love, then he would HAVE to create something to love.  He would NEED to.  But God does not NEED anything.  If He needs anything he is not God.

Christianity however does not run into this problem because of the Trinity.  God the Father loves God the Son who also love God the Holy Spirit.  Because God exists in the Trinity, he can have all his attributes without NEEDING to create anything.

The Trinity is vital to our understating of God and his attributes.

I hope that helps.

Conrad