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In October of 2018 Dr. Fred Sanders of Biola University gave a talk for Lanier Library Lecture Series in Houston, Texas. His aim is to show ordinary believers how they can perceive the triune God in the Bible. He starts with an wide-angle view of scripture, and then zooms in to discuss three New Testament passages in which he claims we can observe the idea of a triune God, the Trinity.
In this episode I have edited the lecture for length, trying to leave just the meat of his case, and I critically interact with Dr. Sanders’s claims. At the end I discuss what I call his “Secret” – an important fact that he chooses not to share with popular audiences.
What did you think of Dr. Sander’s case? Does he show us how to perceive (rather than project) the assumption of New Testament authors that God is triune? Let us know what you think in the Facebook group or in the comments below
Links for this episode:
- Lecture – Fred Sanders (The Triune God of the Bible: Seeing the Trinity in Scripture)
- Dr. Sanders’s website
- Dr. Sanders’s blog Scriptorum Daily
- Lanier Theological Library
- Lanier Theological Library Lecture Series
- one-self Trinity theories
- podcast 192 – Review of Sanders’s The Deep Things of God – Part 1
- podcast 193 – Review of Sanders’s The Deep Things of God – Part 2
- podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation
- podcast 249 – Tuggy vs. Brown debate – The God of the Bible is the Father alone
- The Triune God
- Tuggy, “Divine deception, identity, and Social Trinitarianism“
- The Lost Early History of Unitarian Christian Theology
- podcast 70 – The one God and his Son according to John
- podcast 71 – Is Proverbs 8 about Jesus? Part 1
- podcast 107 – Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr. on triadic New Testament passages – part 1
- podcast 108 – Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr. on triadic New Testament passages – part 2
- podcast 86 – Kermit Zarley on distinguishing Jesus and God
- Restitutio Interview 47 Christian Disciples Church and the Only True God (Calvin Chan)
- This week’s thinking music is “Mistakes were made” by _ghost.
I was stunned at this presentation. If I heard and understood stood correctly, we can originate whatever doctrine we desire, and without any historical proof, we can assert that “Everybody came to understand this between the testaments—that’s why nothing is written about it anywhere.” This seems dangerous to Christianity, as well as abusive to the people who paid to hear this.
On the other hand, I’ll have to agree: the Trinity was born between the testaments, in a sense: if you mean, originated out of gnostic and platonic origins, then yes, we agree that the Trinity is an ancient syncretism with a Greco-Egyptian skeleton. Somehow that didn’t make it into the presentation…
Fred sounds like he’s on his way to Roman Catholicism with that presentation and his book. Tradition of the church > Scripture = Roman Catholic
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