“...has all the attributes of personality and is not merely an impersonal force.”
I like that - He has personality. Not sure that makes Him a “person”. We also refer to God as He, Father, etc. and He is not a person.
To me, a person is someone with a physical body. Jesus was a person. (Hmm - seeing as he did not die and had a body when He ascended into Heaven - is He still a person? I would guess so. Of course He is still more than just a “person” - He IS God.)
I think we can get a bit lost in trying to completely understand the Trinity. We CAN learn a lot about it - but I imagine at a certain point it ends up a “mystery” for our feeble minds and spirit.
But as one of my pastor’s says “It’s a mystery - but I’m okay with that. It’s not a mystery to God.”
You are speaking of what Catholics call the ‘hypostatic union’ - Jesus WAS both fully human AND fully divine.
.......”I think we can get a bit lost in trying to completely understand the Trinity. We CAN learn a lot about it - but I imagine at a certain point it ends up a “mystery” for our feeble minds”.......
I suppose the save would be said of creation as well....people sure like to split hairs about that as well. Though of course it is by faith that we ‘believe’ in Gods creation acts......as is written in Hebrews....”By faith we understand that the universe was formed by God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”
So... perhaps one who doesn’t see the ‘evidence’ of the personhood of the Trinity clearly then it’s a matter of faith ‘believing’ or not.