Plural, yet One - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

In our reading from Genesis this morning, we meet them, the original they, them, theirs. The one who was in the beginning before anything else ever was. When the earth was a formless void the rush of a violent wind swept forth from God and formed the land, water, and light and life were made, and God was in all of it. Speaking and seeing, and blessing and making and calling it all very good. Before humans ever came into being, God was there. And billions of years later, human beings began to tell one another what they thought God was like. Some of the very first human writings that ever attempt to explain God, still struggle to profess that God was a small and simple little thing. How could God be that way? Have you seen how complicated and beautiful this creation is? Even in Genesis, God is plural in form. Let us make humankind in our own image, according to our likeness. So God created humankind and God's own image in the image of God. They were created, male and female, God created them. Plural, and yet one.