Person(al) Belief

Most Christians believe or purport to believe in the Trinity which describes Jesus as the Second Person of the Trinity. My contention is a little different. While I recognize the offices of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit I see only one of them as a person and that person is Jesus.

Here’s my formula:

Jesus, the Son, is the Person of God. The Holy Spirit is the Non-Person of God. God, the Father, is the amalgamation of the Person and the Non-Person.

Another way to look at it:

The Father is the Producer; the Son is the Product; the Spirit is the By-Product.

The above combinations allow the idea that God is both Unique and Universal. He can relate one to one with His creation (through the Person of Jesus) but He can also be everywhere at once (through the agency of His Non-Person, the Spirit).

I Corinthians 2:12 says that the “Spirit comes from God.” If George comes from Minneapolis, it doesn’t mean George is Minneapolis, but in many aspects, he represents what Minneapolis means. The Spirit is God’s main form of outreach to Humanity. When Jesus was about to depart Earth, he told the disciples he would send to them the Comforter (the Spirit). The Spirit would take the place of the Person, Jesus, until Jesus returned. In other words, the Spirit is the next best thing to Jesus being present in person.

One final formulation: God, the Father, is the Kingdom (the total package of Jesus and Spirit); Jesus is the King, and the Spirit is the outreach aspect of King and Kingdom.

So, God is both a Person and Not a Person. To be or not to be is not a question for God – it is an answer.