 But doesn’t the Bible portray God as a self who speaks in the first-person? Layman concedes that the Old Testament does. But because they believe in progressive divine revelation, Christians should read the Old Testament as corrected by the New Testament. And in the New Testament arguably there are “three divine persons (conscious beings)” (164). Old Testament passages where “God” speaks first-person should be read as the Father speaking on behalf of the Trinity (ibid.).