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Re: Is God a person?
noun1.a human being, whether man, woman, or child: The table seats four persons.
2.a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.
3.Sociology. an individual human being, esp. with reference to his or her social relationships and behavioral patterns as conditioned by the culture.
4.Philosophy. a self-conscious or rational being.
5.the actual self or individual personality of a human being: You ought not to generalize, but to consider the person you are dealing with.
6.the body of a living human being, sometimes including the clothes being worn: He had no money on his person.
7.the body in its external aspect: an attractive person to look at.
8.a character, part, or role, as in a play or story.
9.an individual of distinction or importance.
10.a person not entitled to social recognition or respect.
11.Law. a human being (natural person) or a group of human beings, a corporation, a partnership, an estate, or other legal entity (artificial person or juristic person) recognized by law as having rights and duties.
12.Grammar. a category found in many languages that is used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to or about whom he or she is speaking. In English there are three persons in the pronouns, the first represented by I and we, the second by you, and the third by he, she, it, and they. Most verbs have distinct third person singular forms in the present tense, as writes; the verb be has, in addition, a first person singular form am.
13.Theology. any of the three hypostases or modes of being in the Trinity, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
A Person as it is used theologically, refers to an actual identified individual that is self aware or rational. See #5 as well and apply that to God. Does God have a personality? Is God self aware? Is God rational? The word Hyostasis was used to identify these three individuals they believe in. Probably because the word represents the foundation, that which lies beneath, the substantive part of a being to which are attributed a set of certain attributes that identify what KIND of being one is.
Humans are persons who share a Human nature
God is a person with a Divine nature.
Trinity teaches God is 3 Persons who have the same , not the same kind, Divine nature.
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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