" Here the Lord says, “Let us make man in our image.” Some argue that the “us” in this passage refers to the Trinity, but it is unlikely that the Old Testament author, traditionally identified as Moses, had the Trinity in mind. The revelation that God is Triune was not clearly revealed until the New Testament. It is therefore wrong to apply this New Testament understanding to an Old Testament text. (See anachronistic.) The most ancient and most probable interpretation is that the Lord was speaking to angels. This tells us that the imago Dei is something we share in common with the angels and gives us our first hint as to what the concept means. Throughout "

― Gregory A. Boyd , Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology