Recent content by Mattathias

We’ve met before. In fact, many times before.

I have no control over what another person believes. If you’re try to kill the conversation this is a great way to do it. That’s right.

“Old Thumper” didn’t phase you in the least. (That’s the problem with “Old Thumper”. It’s ineffective. In fact, all it does is cause both parties to dig in their heels.)

Agency.

I see it as being contradictory. The person I was speaking with doesn’t. Was my answer worth the wait?

There’s a third alternative.

I think you’re overlooking the beautiful simplicity of the biblical story. You’re making God more complex than he is. Jesus is a human person. He’s a Jew. He himself has a God, and he himself isn’t him. There’s only one true God, this Jewish man’s God, the Father. Everything else is idolatry...

I have a friend who calls that argument “Old Thumper”.

I read it.

No.

No. Yes. See above. I still would have disagreed with you when I was a trinitarian (of the HOT variety). We all use the same scriptures.

Thanks. I was raised KJVO. (A very kind and patient trinitarian (of the HOT variety) helped me to abandon that position.)

Is that the only difference between “biblical trinitarianism” and “historical orthodox trinitarianism”?

Thanks. I’m no longer a trinitarian, and I’m confident we can agree that trinitarian scholarship on this verse isn’t done to accommodate my Jewish unitary monotheism.