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Okay a question came up in another thread that interests me as I have not delved in to it before. Classic trinitarian thought says there are three persons in one God. Common usuage of the word person seems to have it synonymous with individual humans. But the religous/philosophycal definition seems to go beyond this and define person as a being"
A person is defined by philosophers as a being who is in possession of a range of psychological capacities that are regarded as both necessary and sufficient to fulfill the requirements of personhood. These are, in general, that it is capable of reasoning, that it is self-conscious, and that it has an identity that persists through time. The English philosopher John Locke defined a person as "a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me essential to it" (Essay on Humane Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27, Section 9).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person
Okay, so let's discuss scripturally and otherwise if/why the Holy Spirit for instance is a person. Some have claimed there is a definitive answer to the contrary in scripture so this is the place to give it.
Blessings
A person is defined by philosophers as a being who is in possession of a range of psychological capacities that are regarded as both necessary and sufficient to fulfill the requirements of personhood. These are, in general, that it is capable of reasoning, that it is self-conscious, and that it has an identity that persists through time. The English philosopher John Locke defined a person as "a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me essential to it" (Essay on Humane Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27, Section 9).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person
Okay, so let's discuss scripturally and otherwise if/why the Holy Spirit for instance is a person. Some have claimed there is a definitive answer to the contrary in scripture so this is the place to give it.
Blessings
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