{"id":44636,"date":"2024-03-24T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=44636"},"modified":"2024-03-24T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:19:14","slug":"smith-on-whites-jesus-is-yahweh-arguments-restitutio-540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/smith-on-whites-jesus-is-yahweh-arguments-restitutio-540\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith on White&#8217;s Jesus is Yahweh arguments: Restitutio 540"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of the <a aria-label=\"Restitutio Podcast (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/restitutio.org\/get-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Restitutio Podcast<\/a>, pastor Sean Finnegan interviews <strong>New Testament scholar and host of <a aria-label=\"The Biblical Unitarian Podcast (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/biblicalunitarianpodcast.podbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">The Biblical Unitarian Podcast<\/a> Dr. Dustin Smith<\/strong> about my recent debate, focusing on White&#8217;s arguments that &#8220;Jesus is Yahweh.&#8221; In my mind this was a &#8220;deity of Christ&#8221; debate, not a <strong>trinitarian-unitarian debate<\/strong>. But Finnegan and Smith treat it more as the latter, and make a lot of interesting points. Dr. Smith gives his own, different take on the passages White appealed to. About Smith&#8217;s reading of Hebrews 1:10-12 (<a aria-label=\"see also here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YNyZrl4-2fM?si=knxKy-dIeIB2hlM5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">see also here<\/a>), this is the general sort of reading I mentioned in the cross-examination when White asked me if it would refute my position that Jesus is not Yahweh if Hebrews 1:10-12 were (only) about the Son. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"540 Dustin Smith\u2019s Take on the Tuggy-White Debate\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tERoP3sJuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, if you haven&#8217;t seen this recent debate below, you&#8217;re missing on what is to my mind <strong>the best trinitarian-unitarian debate<\/strong>. Smith is the standout here, and his team with pastor Will Barlow is the clear winner. The debate question is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dustin Smith\/William Barlow Vs Samuel Nesan\/Kyle Essary: Jesus is Yahweh? EP 263\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSPU45IWErA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another take on James White&#8217;s arguments that Jesus is Yahweh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-james-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44640,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44636\/revisions\/44640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}