At Babel, God says: 'Come, let us go down and confuse their language.' It's the first overt mention of multiple persons with God - 'us' - suggesting the divine council, the mystery of God's plural nature.
I teach theology, and this gets complicated fast. What is the 'us'? How should we understand God's nature? The passage doesn't explain; it just uses plural language and moves on.
I've learned to sit with that mystery. The text assumes something about God's complexity without explaining it. We're meant to live with the not-knowing and keep following.
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