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My thread has been off track for quite some time. I’m trying to put the focus back on the OP.

I do know these things.

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed today - “Let the Presbyterians be Presbyterians. Let the Baptists be Baptists. Let the Anglicans be Anglican. Let the Lutherans be Lutheran.” (Stephen Spinnenweber) https://x.com/stephenspin/status/1907427957901008927?s=61 My response to the trinitarian...

* I ate in some pubs when I travelled to Ireland. It was fabulous, but I settled for a pint and ate more than a potato. No 7 course meal for me. *

I once quipped in a lecture - “Forget about shouting “Fire!” The safe and easy way to quickly clear a room is to begin talking about church history.”

I remember one of my trinitarian college professors using the phrase “It was beyond their frame of reference.” He was speaking about a particular doctrine (not the doctrine of the Trinity) in my class on Early Church Fathers, but I think it applies here. Why, for example, would Tertullian say...

Bauckham refers frequently to Charles Bigg in his commentary on Jude and 2 Peter. Dr. Bigg is the trinitarian author on 1 Peter in the International Critical Commentary. Dr. Bigg writes in his commentary - “We are not to suppose that the apostles identified Christ with Jehovah; there were...

It’s been far too long since the one and only verse in the OP (Jude 1:25) has been discussed. ”25. Monos theos, ‘to the only God.’ That the God of Israel was the only true God was the distinctive Jewish religious confession, and monos (‘only’) was therefore frequently applied to God in Jewish...

How accurate is Barna’s poll? What if the result of the poll is found to be wildly inaccurate and the actual number of church members who affirm the Trinity is 84% and only 16% reject the Trinity? Would it not still be a serious matter, warranting more thorough education about the Trinity?

“The imperial law code from Justinian’s time (A.D. 529) on, made rebaptism one of the two heresies penalized by death, the other being Anti-Trinitarianism.” https://www.anabaptists.org/history/mennoen1.html Trinitarians and non-trinitarians should be taught this history. Sooner or later...