It is rather
common for Trinitarians to speak as if God is a single person (Unitarianism) but then switches to “God” being, not a
person, but a being and speak of
there being three persons. Note the following from two Trinitarians where they
contradict one another in the same paragraph(!):
The Judeo-Christian God is not an impersonal
force. The Bible portrays God as a person
who has exhaustive self-consciousness, has created and sustains all things . . .
The Bible also presents God as one being (e.g., Deut 6:4; 1 Tim. 2:5-6) and
yet, particularly in the New Testament, as an individual plurality of three
eternal and divine persons . . . (Eric L. Johnson and Douglas S Huffman, “Should
the God of Historic Christianity be Replaced?” in Douglas S. Huffman and Eric
L. Johnson, eds. God Under Fire: Modern
Scholarship Reinvents God [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2002], 11-41,
here, p. 33, italics in original)
As for
whether Unitarianism is Christian, the authors wrote the following:
A Unitarian [is] not a Christian . . .(Ibid.,
21)
One wonders
if their claim that God is a person is
also not Christian?
