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Is God a person?You have probably heard someone saying that God is a person, since as we are normally surrounded by persons, we quickly tend to think that everyone and everything falls into that concept. This, of course, is something implanted since early childhood in most of us. I even read articles from very educated and articulated writers that use the expression "the human person", and I am still waiting to meet one person that it is not human... of course, I do not live in Toontown or Disney Studios where I think is more likely to get acquainted with animals and things that act, behave and talk as persons. Following this trend, it is only natural that, by default, many people actually think of God as if He were a person. Some religions, for example, teach that the Trinity consists of three persons and one only God. But is it true? Starting from the very word "person", which comes from Latin origin and has to do with theatrical perfomances, we must then go deep in our analysis so we can reach at where the truth is. In the Oxford Dictionary this explanation is given: `Person. (Latin=persona) a mask used by a player, a character acted; in later use, a human being; connected by some with the Latin personare "to sound through". A part played in a drama, or in life; hence, function, office, capacity; guise, semblance; character in a play or story'. As you probably know, in ancient Greece and Rome, same as in other cultures as the Chinese and Japanese, theatrical roles were played by men, even when the character to be represented was that of a woman. Hence, masks where required to achieve the illusion, both in voice and face. But added to this, there is a problem when you look in the Bible and find out that many times the word "person" was used when referring to different kinds of beings, although in the original text nothing has to do with the word person as we understand it now. So, we discover that KVJ translates to "person" the Hebrew word adam='man', a gender (Jonah 4:11); ish='man', a male (2 Kings 10:7); enosh='mortal' (Judges 9:4); methim='men' (Psa. 26:4); nephesh='soul' (Gen. 14:21); nephesh adam='soul of man' (gender) (Num. 31:35). There is no way that any of these terms can be properly used as God. The only other word employed in the Hebrew that was translated as "person", is panim='face'. Eighteen of the twenty occurrences of panim which are translated "person" employ it in the phrase "regard" or "accept persons", and it is evident that the term here does not relate so much to an individual, but as of a status of material possesions, whether such be 'high' or 'low', 'rich' or 'poor'. In clear opposition to the notion that God could be a person, the Divine Master Himself declares: "God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship [Him] in spirit and in truth." John 4:24 Furthermore, in His revelations of this Third Era, the Lord explains to us: "This is the time for comprehension, of the illumination of the spirit and the mind, when man will finally seek Me spiritually, because he will acknowledge that God is not a person nor an image, but the Universal Spirit, unlimited and absolute." T295:29
All quotes taken from The Third Testament
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