{"id":45025,"date":"2025-12-04T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=45025"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:06:42","slug":"podcast-398-response-to-the-trinity-walking-with-wes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-398-response-to-the-trinity-walking-with-wes\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 398 &#8211; Response to &#8220;The Trinity? &#8211; Walking with Wes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9428\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-45025-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities398.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities398.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities398.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities398.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=45025-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities398.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities398.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/walking-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45028\" style=\"width:451px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/walking-3.png 730w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/walking-3-450x268.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v-JmA0rIX5A&amp;t=4s\">this short video<\/a> apologist Wes Huff confidently dishes out a bunch of <strong>mostly standard apologetics &#8220;answers&#8221;<\/strong> designed to sooth worries about &#8220;the doctrine of the Trinity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vQRfxJVCfRw?si=qB2oeynN2otvvUDd\">reaction video<\/a><\/strong> I interact with Huff&#8217;s claims, clarifying what he&#8217;s saying and why, pointing out what he&#8217;s doing and not doing, and how he fails to engage with the seemingly non-trinitarian theology of the New Testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>He&#8217;s right that it is Christians and not only non-Christians who have various worries<\/strong> about what is imagined to be one single doctrine. But as I discuss, his answers should not soothe Christians concerned about (1) how one can supposedly derive a Trinity doctrine from the Bible, and (2) how Trinity speculations seem incompatible with the theology of the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vQRfxJVCfRw?si=qB2oeynN2otvvUDd\">Video version of this episode<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-397-debunking-wes-huffs-viral-trinity-moment-with-michael-temperato\/\">podcast 397 \u2013 Debunking Wes Huff\u2019s Viral Trinity Moment with Michael Temperato<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-107-dr-robert-m-bowman-jr-on-triadic-new-testament-passages-part-1\/\">podcast 107 \u2013 Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr. on triadic New Testament passages \u2013 part 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-62-dr-dustin-smith-on-the-preexistence-of-jesus-in-the-gospel-of-john\/\">podcast 62 \u2013 Dr. Dustin Smith on the preexistence of Jesus in the gospel of John<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-260-how-to-argue-that-the-bible-is-trinitarian\/\">podcast 260 \u2013 How to Argue that the Bible is Trinitarian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-189-the-unfinished-business-of-the-reformation\/\"><strong>podcast 189 \u2013 The unfinished business of the Reformation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-248-how-trinity-theories-conflict-with-the-bible\/\"><strong>podcast 248 \u2013 How Trinity theories conflict with the Bible<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KxYtTQDo1dA&amp;t=1897s\">Dale Tuggy &#8211; Trinitarian &#8220;Fool&#8217;s Gold&#8221; &#8211; Mainstream Christian Theologies &#8211; Late 100&#8217;s to Early 200&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9W_KjktIdk&amp;t=398s\">Dale Tuggy &#8211; Christian theologies in the year 240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-2-the-athanasian-creed\/\"><strong>podcast 2 \u2013 the \u201cAthanasian Creed\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-bible-teaches-that-david-is-god\/\">fulfillment fallacy: the Bible teaches that David is God<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-bible-on-another-previous-life-of-jesus\/\">fulfillment fallacy: the Bible on another previous life of Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/mr-smith\/fredson-drive\/slinky\/\">Slinky<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/mr-smith\/\">Mr. Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Wes Huff&#8217;s Trinity answers hold up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45027,"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":[37,21,6,58,14,55,57,77,3,95,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-complaints","category-creeds","category-history","category-holy-spirit","category-podcast","category-protestant","category-theories","category-uca","category-wes-huff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025","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=45025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45032,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025\/revisions\/45032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}