Since some seem perfectly at ease to depersonalize the Holy Spirit, and claim that any mention of the Holy Spirit as talking, or as "he, him, or his" are mere personifications, then this rule can be applied anywhere.
Satan is not a real person. The Bible only makes him sound like one because the Bible writers all use personification whenever they talk about Satan. Why, because according to the arguments of some, Wisdom is personified in Proverbs, or the mountains cry out, or the trees laugh, that Satan is not a person either.
But, but, but ... what about when Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness? Well, first of all the non-person called the Spirit or Holy Spirit led Jesus there, so it was likely just a personified experience ... but then when Jesus was tempted, it was merely the potential evil that we like to call Satan that was egging him on.
Nooooo ... a perfect man cannot be tempted by evil, so it must have been a real Satan. Yes, but the premise is that Satan is not a person because it says in Proverbs that Wisdom cried out and the Mountains sing, so Satan is just being personified. In order for Jesus to be tested, he must have at least had the potential to sin, and in order to have that potential, he must have at least felt some twinge in his human flesh. So, that little potential evil in us all, whether perfect or imperfect must be Satan. Yes, it all makes sense; because in Proverbs, Wisdom cries, mountains laugh, and tree whine ...
Of course, we have another problem. What? Well, there is this pesky issue that no secular historian ever mentions Jesus except Flavius Josephus in his two little comments in his volumnous writings ... and those two little mentionings were shown to likely be spurious. No, Jesus is the clever invention of rebellious Jews who wanted to get a new religion going ... and could not cut it at the Synagogue. So they were expelled as apostates and used Jesus name for their marketing image. Because, you see, Jesus is not a real person, but only a personification of a good man, who himself was only poeticly tested by a personified Satan, in a place where the personified Holy Spirit led him in a personified way.
Why can I say these things? Because in Proverbs it shows that Wisdom is personified because it cries out, the trees laugh, and the sea sings.
But how can Jesus have died for us is he is only a personification? Because we do not have souls, we are only said to have life. Our future lives are not here yet, so our current existence is fixed on dying. So, we live only figuratively, and our future lives are thus personified, because in a real sense we do not live. How can this be? Because in Proverbs is says that Wisdom cries out, the mountains laugh, and the trees blush.
But, then how can a figurative Jesus' figurative death really save us if we are already dead, or not alive yet? Because Adam and Eve are really only figurative people who figuratively sinned in a figurative garden, tempted by their inner evil by a personified Satan. How can this be? Because, it says in Proverbs that Wisdom laughs at you, trees sing rich melodies, and mountains belch ...
Well then, how can their figurative sin really count if they are only personified figurative people tempted by a personified Satan? Don't you get it yet, it is simple you see; in proverbs it says Widsom cries out ....
Jim Whitney