The Biblical Meaning of a Person Trinitarians often claim that the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures never actually say that God is one “Person” like our English word Person. Therefore, they insist that it is possible for God to exist as three divine persons even...
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The Biblical Meaning of a Person Trinitarians often claim that the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures never actually say that God is one “Person” like our English word Person. Therefore, they insist that it is possible for God to exist as three divine persons even though no scripture ever says that God is three persons. Yet just as God is not spoken of in scripture as a “Person” with our precise English rendering of that word in Hebrew and Greek, so the original languages of the Bible do not use the precise word for our English word “person” when referencing people either. Thus, it is reasonable to believe that God exists as one Divine Person in a similar way that individual human beings exist as one person. Although the original languages of the Bible do not use the word “person” when referencing the one true God, the Bible does utilize similar words in Hebrew and Greek which do have the same essential meaning as the English word person. In order to rightly divide the word of truth, we must
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