Category: Trinity

Why Not Trinity and Incarnation?

by Dr. Steven Nemes, PhD in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, author of Orthodoxy and Heresy (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

imagesI do not affirm the catholic doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation as understood by the Nicene-Chalcedonian tradition. The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that the one God is one “being” or “nature” (ousia) subsistent in three “persons” (hypostases). The doctrine of the Incarnation teaches that Jesus Christ is one “person” (hypostasis, prosopon) in two “natures” (ousia, physeis). These are … Read the rest

Five Problems with “The Trinity”

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 thetrinity 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
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Is Jesus God?

IS JESUS ‘GOD’?

(NOTE : The following article was writQuestion-Markten with “Oneness” adherents in mind)

At John 17:1-3 Jesus prayed,

John 17:3 REV And this is life in the age to come, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Jesus addressed this prayer to his Father, used the singular form of the pronoun, and described this singular “You” as “the only true God.” Thus, according to Jesus, the Father alone is … Read the rest