“‘Person’ is the word in our vocabulary that applies to beings who speak, act intentionally, and so on. . . Only in biblical religions is there an absolute principle that is personal. Other religions have personal gods, but those gods are not absolute. Other religions and philosophies (Hinduism, Aristotle, Spinoza, Hegel) have absolute principles, but those principles are impersonal. Islam believes in an unknowable God who can (inconsistently) be described in personal terms; the extent to which Allah is personal is due to Mohammed’s original respect for “the book” (the Jewish/Christian Scriptures) and to the Arab polytheism described in Hadith. Other sects also hold to some level of personality in God, because of the influence of the Bible upon their founders. But groups like the Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, like the Muslims, are inconsistent in their confession of God’s absolute personality.” John Frame.[1]
[1] John M. Frame, The Doctrine of God (Phillipsburg, PA: P&R Publishing, 2002), 26-27.
