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To: Campion

I would call your “person,” beings. When we speak of “people,” your version says that will necessarily include God and the Holy Spirit. “People” is the plural of “person.”


61 posted on 10/23/2018 1:48:13 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Actually, "persons" is the plural of "person". If you're going to attach your own meanings to words, it rapidly becomes impossible to have any meaningful communication. This is a thread about theology, so the proper definition of "person" is the one theologians use. When people say "the Holy Spirit is a person," they are using the word the way I am using the word. They do not mean "the Holy Spirit is a human being".

"Being" is problematical anyway. A rock is a "being" (it exists), but it is not a "person" (according to the way theologians and philosophers use the word) because it has no rational nature.

63 posted on 10/23/2018 1:51:16 PM PDT by Campion ((marine dad))
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