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podcast 357 – Seminary student takes Trinity class, becomes unitarian – Part 2

  • There are no verses that define God as being Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • There are no verses that define God as three, three in one, or a multiple.
  • There are no verses that say that Jesus has two natures or two minds.
  • There are no verses that say Jesus is a God-man, or that he is fully God and fully man.
  • There are no verses that call Jesus “eternally begotten,” the bible says he was begotten or “born” by Mary.
Why Biblical Unitarianism?

In this second half of my wide-ranging conversation with recent seminary graduate Johnny Barnes, we discuss:

  • further advice for Christians re-thinking the issue of the Bible and “the Trinity”
  • the importance of what is NOT in the New Testament for deciding whether these authors are trinitarian or unitarian
  • “the Holy Spirit” in the New Testament
  • why Jesus is to be honored or worshiped according to the New Testament
  • systematic theologians’ desire to “go beyond the basics” of the Trinity
  • “the deity of Christ” vs. theories that God is the Trinity
  • how to get around fruitless proof-text wars and the cheap accusation that unitarian Christians merely “assume unitarianism”
  • the shallow and misleading way that many today teach the early history of Christian theologies and christologies
  • the REV Bible
  • why literal isn’t always best when it comes to translation
  • advice for and a challenge to seminary students

Thanks to Johnny Barnes for a good conversation!

Links for this episode:

John 17:5; John 17:1-3; John 5:44; Philippians 2:11; Revelation 5:9-14; Acts 5:3, John 1:18 (REV commentary); Matthew 1:18; Matthew 1:20; Colossians 1:15.

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biblicalunitarian.com

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This week’s thinking music is “La Bella” by Mr. Smith.

1 thought on “podcast 357 – Seminary student takes Trinity class, becomes unitarian – Part 2”

  1. I’m glad there’s a Bibles edition that’s not bias towards trinitarianism. Now if only there was one that wasn’t biased towards a personal devil. Also instead of using angel just had the word messenger instead.

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