The Bible describes a person as a soul. This is shown in the text of both Hebrew and Greek scriptures.
For example, when God breathed life, His spirit into the nostrils of Adam he became a nephesh, Hebrew for a living being, a human person (Gen 2.7). Similarly, Acts 2.41 says 3,000 souls or people converted to Christianity. The Greek word there is psyche, from where we get the English word psyche, your soul, identity, individuality.
In the OT God identifies Himself as a single soul, a single non-human Person (1Sam 2.35; Jeremiah 6.8; Ezekiel 23:18).
In the NT Greek we once again see the word psyche used for the one God (Matt 12.18; Heb. 10.38).
The fact is that "believers in God as a single person (God the Father), were at the beginning of the 3rd century still forming the large majority" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed. vol. 23, p 963).
For example, when God breathed life, His spirit into the nostrils of Adam he became a nephesh, Hebrew for a living being, a human person (Gen 2.7). Similarly, Acts 2.41 says 3,000 souls or people converted to Christianity. The Greek word there is psyche, from where we get the English word psyche, your soul, identity, individuality.
In the OT God identifies Himself as a single soul, a single non-human Person (1Sam 2.35; Jeremiah 6.8; Ezekiel 23:18).
In the NT Greek we once again see the word psyche used for the one God (Matt 12.18; Heb. 10.38).
The fact is that "believers in God as a single person (God the Father), were at the beginning of the 3rd century still forming the large majority" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed. vol. 23, p 963).