Now the Trinity - as God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit all together are called - is a very confusing concept. He is One God, but there are three different “parts”, three different ways God works. It’s not possible for our human minds to really understand what that is like, but we trust by faith that it is just as God has told us in His Word.
Most of the time when we think about creation, we think about God the Father making everything that there is. We don’t usually think about the Holy Spirit or Jesus being there. But the Bible tells us that they were. Genesis 1:26 is one of the places that tells us that. The New American Standard Version of the Bible begins, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness …” And all of the translations say something similar. So it doesn’t come out and say that all three parts of the Trinity were there, but it does say “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness …” (emphasis mine) so we know that it wasn’t just God the Father.
Looking at Genesis 1:2, we know that the Holy Spirit was there because it says He moved around as He hovered over the waters. Then if we look at John 1:1-3, we see that Jesus was there, too. The NASB says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into begin that has come into being.” “The Word” is another name for Jesus, and so we see that He was there in the beginning, at creation. How amazing is that!
