This article was sent to me by Sir Anthony Buzzard Greek and Hebrew Bible scholar.
The word Person is very easy. The Hebrew is Nephesh.
God is said to be a Deity Person and we are human persons (souls).
Singular personal pronouns in all language denote and define single persons
We all know that! YHVH says “I am YHVH.” You say “I am Simon.’
We all know that is one single person. This happens for God thousands and thousands of times.
One needs no special definition of person!
"The OT is strictly monotheistic. God is a single personal being.” Paine, A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism, 1900, p. 4.
“God is a highly resourceful and capable person.” Clark Pinnock, Most Moved Over: A Theology of God’s Openness, p 100.
“Yahweh and God are synonyms [and] the concept of God includes the concept of person and is shaped by it.” WBC, theos.
"Where the word heis {ONE) takes the place of a predicate [Mar 12.29, 32; Gal 3.20; Jam 2.19] it means one person.” (Thayer, A Greek, English Lexicon of the NT)
"There was shown to Israel but one personal Jehovah, besides whom there is no other in the supreme underived sense [Deut. 4.35; 6.4; 7.9; Ps 86.6; Mar 12.29, 32; 1Cor 8.4; Gal 3.20; 1Tim 2.5]." Thomas Fessenden, A Theoretic Explanation of the Science of Sanctity.
"Yahweh is not the brand name of a cosmic corporation. He is one God, our God, and Yahweh is his personal name." Christopher J. Wright, Deuteronomy (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series)
"There is only one supreme and true God, and He is a Person." Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1980, p 571.
Believers in God as a single person (God the Father), were at the beginning of the 3rd century still forming the large majority.” Encyclopedias Britannica, 11th Ed; vol. 23; p. 963.
"The Lord our God, even the Lord, is One: eis, One Person. “
“For there is One God, and there is none other but He: Not, no other than His Substance, but personally, no other than He." The Works of Samuel Clark.
"The Scripture, when it mentions the One God, or the Only God, always means the Supreme Person of the Father." Samuel Clark, Scripture-Doctrine.
As Christianity emerged from Judaism, and is a monotheistic religion, and Yahweh Father GOD of creation is a Single Person, then GOD is obviously not three separate persons. Simon Brown Real discoveries org.
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