word “person,” we attach to it all sorts of “baggage” that comes from our own personal experiences. We think of a physical body, an individual, separate from everyone else. We think of a spatial location, physical attributes like height, weight, age—all things associated with our common use of the word “person.” When we use this word to describe a divine person (Father, Son, or Holy Spirit), we tend to drag along with it the “baggage” that comes from our common use of the term in everyday life. Many
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