This word “person” is extremely important in matters of law and governance, and in this context it can take on a totally different meaning to what many citizens believe it to mean.

In law, and on Earth, there are two main lawmakers which are:

1. government and
2. God.

Governments are completely secular and therefore rule using civil law, which is another word for Roman Law, which is the legal system which governs the citizens of a country.

God’s law is written in Scripture and on the conscience. Importantly man’s government (the powers that be) sits under God’s law, is in opposition to God (you can not have two law makers, rulers, masters: Matthew 6:24: Exodus 20:3)  and therefore civil law is a derivative of God’s law: 

• Romans 13:1, KJV 1611– Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

This word “person” is the pivot point of the lawful and legal jurisdiction. The legal jurisdiction is man’s law and governance under a government, and the lawful jurisdiction is God’s law and governance under Scripture.

Whether you are a “person” or not, at law, will define whom your lawmaker is, your master, it will define which side of the legal vs. lawful jurisdictional line you will fall in to. This is because man’s government only has jurisdiction over the “persons” it creates, and “persons” are not what the God of The Bible created, see:

• Genesis 2:7, KJV 1611 – And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

It states many times in The Bible not to become a, or accept, man’s person. God created “people” not “persons”. The state created “persons” not “people”. Logically speaking, we know that a state; a country does not create “people”; so what then is a “person”?.

Legally speaking this word “person” has different meanings under different Acts of Parliament and in the Law Dictionary’s.

In the Petition Of Right [1627] it states that a person is a “soul-dier and Marriner” (which should be a big clue to Christians as to why it is bad, soul dier relates directly to the Job 32:22 quote above)

Definition of ‘Person’ from Blacks Law Dictionary 4th Edition:

• PERSON. 1. This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons. In law, man and person are not exactly-synonymous terms. Any human being is a man, whether he be a member of society or not, whatever may be the rank he holds, or whatever may be his age, sex, &c. A person is a man considered according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which the place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 137. 2. It is also used to denote a corporation which is an artificial person. 

Blacks Law Dictionary 8th Edition definitions: 

• PERSON. The living body of a human being <contraband, found on the smuggler’s person >: 3. An entity (such as a corporation) that is recognized by law as having the rights and duties of a human being – in this sense, the term includes partnerships and associations, whether incorporated or unincorporated. “So far as legal theory is concerned, a person is any being whom the law regards as capable of rights and duties. Any being that is so capable is a person, whether a human being or not, and no being that is not so capable is a person, even though he be a man. Persons are the substances of which rights and duties are the attributes. It is only in this respect that persons possess juridical significance, and this is the exclusive point of view from which personality receives legal recognition’ person (n.) 1200, persoun, “an individual, a human being,” from Old French persone “human being, anyone, person” (12c., Modern French personne) and directly from Latin persona “human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character,” originally “a mask, a false face,” such as those of wood or clay, covering the whole head, worn by the actors in later Roman theater. OED offers the general 19c. explanation of persona as “related to” Latin personare “to sound through” (i.e. the mask as something spoken through and perhaps amplifying the voice), “but the long o makes a difficulty ….” Klein and Barnhart say it is possibly borrowed from Etruscan phersu “mask.” De Vaan has no entry for it.

From the above definitions we can see that: 

1. A person and man are not synonymous terms.

2. A person is a corporation; which is a legal fiction. Not living; dead.

3. A legal fiction is not real. It is Imaginary, existing only in the mind. A graven image.

4. A person holds a rank in society (civil society under civil law) and has duties imposed. 

5. A person is a mask, a false face, an assumed character.

• God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another – William Shakespeare

Here are a few legal maxims with regards to legal fictions:

• A fiction is a rule of law that assumes something which is or may be false as true.

• Where truth is, fiction of law does not exist.

• There is no fiction without law.

• Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions.

• Fiction is against the truth, but it is to have truth.

• In a fiction of law, equity always subsists.

• A fiction of law injures no one.