What you have here is
a different text, so
of course it's going to lead to a different interpretation, if you look at it in isolation as you are doing! That's not a problem of "My interpretation" (since I didn't interpret anything; what I presented was already glossed, I merely pointed out some features of the language that make the Mormon interpretation obviously false), but of the fact that we are dealing with a different base text. What I presented was this:
^ This is Genesis
1:27 --
you presented Genesis
1:26, which has entirely different grammatical constructs to deal with. So don't pretend like I've "misinterpreted"
something we weren't talking about until right now. That deceptive and kind of insulting. It's a different verse.
In
1:26, the relevant nouns end in -nū (cf. the above image of the Hebrew with gloss, where there are no forms that end that way), which I know from already speaking Arabic (which is also a Semitic language) is the equivalent of the Arabic enclitic (affixed) plural form for the first person dual and plural, -nā (نا-), so yes, those forms would be "Our", rather than "His". What this has to do with anything is beyond me, though. If you want to talk about 1:26, then why don't we do so without
separating it from 1:27, since obviously they form one thematic event (i.e., God doesn't just announce that He is going to do this and then
not do it)? After all, it is certainly fine to say all the things said in 1:26 about God's plan to do this, but when He gets to it, it still says in the following verse "HE (singular) created" "in HIS image (singular)", and so on.
So, if this is how you are going to interpret it, I suppose it's fair to ask: where did the 'other gods' of the earlier verse go, then? Did they immediately skedaddle when it came time to do the work of creating things? I don't want to make any Mormons mad by putting this out there, but that idea would seem to contradict the Mormon creation narrative whereby creation was a matter of others doing the work and going back to 'report' to God the Father. Hmmm.