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In the first segment I explain why Dr. White’s stated reason for not wanting to debate me is based on misunderstanding. He hastily dismisses my work as “philosophical” and so not scripturally grounded. That is a non sequitur; a body of work can be both of those things, and mine is. I’m an evangelical Christian and biblical unitarian, and my theological views are based on scripture. I try hard not to base any conclusion on any philosophical speculation, sticking as much as possible to logic and our God-given common sense. In truth, theologians and apologists often rely, sometimes unknowingly, on controversial philosophical assumptions, such as realism about universals, mind-body dualism, divine command theory, or eternalism.
In the second segment I address some of Nabeel Qureshi’s speculations on the Trinity, now being re-posted by his widow.
In the third I discuss some most unwelcome news about apologist Dr. Ravi Zacharias.
Links for this episode:
- Debate Prep Links for Dr. White and/or his Philosophical Surrogate
- Some Clarifications for Dr. White
- What is the Trinity?
- “Trinity“
- How Trinity theories conflict with the New Testament
- God and his Son: the Logic of the New Testament
- Who Should Christians Worship?
- podcast 191 – Ware’s Outline of the Testimony of Scripture Against the Trinity
- podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation
- podcast 183 – Challenge Unmet
- podcast 182 – White’s case for the Trinity – Part 2
- podcast 181 – White’s case for the Trinity – Part 1
- podcast 146 – Jesus as an Exemplar of Faith in the New Testament
- podcast 145 – ‘Tis Mystery All: the Immortal dies!
- podcast 124 – A Challenge to Jesus is God Apologists
- Debate Trinitarian vs Biblical Unitarian (Brant Bosserman and Sean Finnegan)
- About bad apologists’ arguments
- Nabeel Querishi and attempts to prove the Trinity from reason, e.g. from God’s love
- podcast 94 – review of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus – Part 2
- podcast 93 – review of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus – Part 1
- NQMinistries
- Nabeel at Summit Ministries: Grasping the Concept of the Trinity
- podcast 58 – We can’t prove the Trinity by reason alone
- “On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Person“
- Ravi Zacharias
- Ravi Zacharias Eulogy at Nabeel Qureshi’s Funeral
- podcast 51 – Dr. Ravi Zacharias on the Trinity
- The Friendly Banjo Atheist (Steve Baughman)
- Degrees of Doubt: The Claims and Credentials of Ravi Zacharias (TTA Podcast 325)
- A BREWING RAVI ZACHARIAS SEX SCANDAL
- “The Case Against Ravi Zacharias / Online Sex Scandal Lawsuit / Credential Fraud”
- Raviwatch.com
- The Christian Industrial Complex Shields Its Own
- Matthew 27:45-46; John 20:17.
- This week’s thinking music is “Break” by Little Glass Men.
- You can support the trinities podcast at patreon.
On a positive note, even theologian N T Wright is suggesting that we need to look at the NT documents’ description of Jesus without the lenses of Chalcedonian Christology to redeem the Jesus as understood in the first century. That’s encouraging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KII2rltbG58
Yeah, I believe that James White was not charitable in his assessment of you. You actually deal with Biblical basis as support for Unitarianism more than with philosophical arguments. But you cannot fully divorce oneself from philosophy when dealing with categories of being, person etc. and determining the coherence of a given theory. I believe that for James White, he is more bound to the Calvinistic understanding of salvation where three persons of Trinitarian God involved in three different aspects of salvation and work together. For him, he seems attracted to the beauty of that soteriological plan and the fact that the God directly getting involved in the salvation of man.
Hi Dale,
Off topic:
It’s a shame you put on hold your historical podcasts, you still haven’t touched upon this appalling council of Constantinople (except in a short post).
Very few people have heard the full story behind it, that would be extremely beneficial.
Jonathan
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