{"id":4824,"date":"2013-07-20T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T16:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2013-07-20T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T19:47:35","slug":"craigs-a-priori-argument-for-a-three-self-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/craigs-a-priori-argument-for-a-three-self-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig&#8217;s a priori argument for a three-self Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AXLMrpP9a8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve covered this <a title=\"Lonely God posts\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=lonely+god&amp;searchsubmit=\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Craig slurs the argument, making the conclusion a bit unclear. The point is not really that a three-self trinitarian theology is just somehow superior to a unitarian theology. Rather, <strong>the point is supposed to be<\/strong> that the concept of a perfect being who is a self collapses into incoherence; it is perfect, yet (the idea is) lacks a feature any perfect being must have. That is, the conclusion is that a God who is a self is as contradictory as a square-circle. The &#8220;social&#8221; trinitarian view is supposed to win the race because one of its rivals blows a tire midway through the race.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, this Swinburne-Davis argument <a title=\"On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Person\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/dale\/SinglePerfect.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>has been adequately rebutted<\/strong><\/a>. I invite Drs. Craig, Swinburne, or Davis to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, note how <a title=\"previous \" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/3398\" target=\"_blank\">Craig loves<\/a> to associate unitarian understandings of God with Islam. A <strong>good rhetorical move<\/strong>, to be sure. But while most Islamic theologies are unitarian (I think some aren&#8217;t that, but instead Ultimist &#8211; positing on ineffable ultimate reality which is not a self) of course it is false that all unitarian theologies are Islamic, as evidened by Christian and Jewish unitarians, including <a title=\"Origen post\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/4521\" target=\"_blank\">great Christian apologists<\/a> of past ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve covered this before. Craig slurs the argument, making the conclusion a bit unclear. The point is not really that a three-self trinitarian theology is just somehow superior to a unitarian theology. Rather, the point is supposed to be that the concept of a perfect being who is a self collapses into incoherence; it is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/craigs-a-priori-argument-for-a-three-self-trinity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Craig&#8217;s a priori argument for a three-self Trinity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[37,6,8,9,3,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-complaints","category-linkage","category-philosophy","category-theories","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","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=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}