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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Are Angels Persons


This question came up in Bible Study Wed night: Is Lucifer a person?
First what is a person ? And does a person need a physical body ? Or is it person hood that we should be looking at ? If you have person hood does that make you a person?

Here is the definition according to Dictionary .com
person
[pur-suh n] 
noun
1.a human being, whether an adult or child:
2.a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.
3.an individual human being who likes or prefers something specified (used in combination):
4.Sociology. an individual human being, especially with reference to his or her social relationships and behavioral patterns as conditioned by the culture.
5.Philosophy. a self-conscious or rational being.
6.he actual self or individual personality of a human being:
7.the body of a living human being, sometimes including the clothes being worn:

Also on the same page: 

Person

noun 

1.(Christianity) any of the three hypostas es existing as distinct in the one God and constituting the Trinity. They are the First Person, the Father,the Second Person, the Son, and the Third Person, the Holy Ghost

How does the second definition fit the first when only the second person (Jesus the son has a physical body.)
As the word person relates to God ,and the angels maybe its person hood that should
be looked at.
Does person need flesh and bone? First we have to define what “person” means before we can determine if God is a person. Some people think that a person must have a body of flesh and bones, but theologically speaking “personhood” does not necessitate that. Instead, personhood is defined as having a will, self-awareness, emotions, being able to recognize others, speaking, etc. Therefore, angels would be persons since they have wills, speak, etc. God would be a person, too. However, the Christian doctrine of God is that He is comprised of three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We call this the Trinity. We say that God is three persons because we see that the Father is called God (Phil. 1:2), the Son is called God (Heb. 1:8), and the Holy Spirit is called God (Acts 5:1-4). Each has a will (F, Luke 22:42; S, Luke 22:42; HS, 1 Cor. 12:11) and speaks (F, Matt. 3:17; S, Luke 5:20; HS, Acts 13:2) So, can God be said to be a person? Yes. And how do we tell if He is a person? We simply look at the requirements of being a person, such as speaking, being aware of others, having a will, loving, etc.; and we see that God most certainly expresses the attributes of person hood. (Matt Slick Carm.org )
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If the bold print above describes person hood and having person hood makes you a person ,then yes Lucifer is a person ,all the angel s are persons .

 Just a quick possible answer .

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