As the Old Testament can say that Abraham “trusted in Jahweh” (nine times out of eleven using the preposition ba rather than al with the hiphil form with its object as God), and as Jesus is reported to have spoken of His relationship to the Father as being “in the Father,” all without diminishing the concept of the real personality of God, so Paul, with his high Christology, can speak of being “in Christ” without that concept of person “in” person softening or dissolving the fixed outlines of personality