Five Major Problems with the Trinity
by Sean Finnegan (May 2011) [click here for video]
1. Jesus Was a Jew
A veritable revolution in Jesus scholarship in the
last century occurred when scholars began taking seriously that Jesus and his earliest followers were Jewish, living in a particular socio-political Sitz im Leben, which is typically designated as second temple Judaism.
The Case:
- the radical monotheism of Deuteronomy (4.35, 39)and the Shema (Deut 6.4-5)
- if Jesus was a Jew then he