22) The Israelite man will indeed be greatly alarmed by the words of this philosopher who speaks such things, interchanging the various gods mentioned here, and dividing the ten utterances by which the world was created into different gods, one from another! In Sanhedrin, in the first chapter of monetary laws, we learn, "Therefore, man was created as an individual," etc., so that the heretics will not say there are many authorities in heaven, etc. Rashi explains that each one created his own [part], accordingly.
And in the Beraita, the Sages teach, "Adam was created as an individual because of the heretics who would claim there are many authorities in heaven." Furthermore, Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav, "When the Holy One, blessed be He, sought to create man, He took counsel with a group of ministering angels and said to them, 'Let us make man in our image.' They said to Him, 'Master of the Universe, what are his deeds?'
He replied to them, 'His deeds will be such and such.' They said to Him, 'Master of the Universe, what is man that You should remember him?' He extended His little finger and burned them, and so it is written in a second verse." The third group said before Him, the Holy One, blessed be He: "The earlier ones who said before You, what did they accomplish?
The whole world is Yours; everything You wish to do in Your world, do. Once it came to the generation of the Flood and the generation of the Tower of Babel, they said before the Holy One, blessed be He, 'Wasn't it good what the earlier ones said before You?' He said to them, 'I am enduring until old age, and until gray hair, I will bear it.' See the commentary of Matersdorf (Matirasa) and see later in section 25."