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Originally Posted by hometown guy
Doesn't matter how they want to describe it they still believe in 3 gods.
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Yet you would be hard pressed to find a trinitarian who would embrace the notion they believe in three gods. The word person comes from The Latin word "persona".
"Persona is the Latin word for the masks used in the Greek drama. It meant that the actor was heard and his identity recognized by others through the sounds that issued from the open mask mouth. From it the word 'person' emerged to express the idea of a human being who meant something, who represented something, and who seemed to have some defined connectedness with others by action or affects. (We still use 'person' to connote this: we say of an infant who begins to show awareness of self in relation to others, 'He's becoming a person.') A person makes himself known, felt, taken in by others, through his particular roles and their functions. Some of his personae--his masks--are readily detachable and put aside, but others become fused with his skin and bone."
(Helen Harris Perlman, Persona: Social Role and Personality. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986)
In that context to say God is three persons would actually fit our "manifestations". One actor wearing three different masks. One God manifesting Himself to us in three different ways.