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From Risen (Spoiler alert. This is the final scene in the movie.) “Do you truly believe all this?” “I believe. I can never be the same.”

Inwardly (Romans 2:29).

Neither Christ nor Paul are Roman Catholic.

@Charlie24 what do you think about rebaptizing? (See, for example, the Anabaptists.)

Have you stopped beating your wife?

The premise of your question is flawed. Constraint of history: Paul is a Jew. Constraint of history ignored: Paul is a Roman Catholic. (Or a Muslim. Or a Hindu. Or a …). Constraint of history: Jesus is a Jew. Constraint of history ignored: Jesus is a Roman Catholic. (Or a Muslim. Or an...

First, see the constraints of history. Then, see what happens when the constraints of history are ignored.

That’s right. Now we have the historical context, which means that we’re now back to the Bible.

So what is the OP doing? The very thing which the trinitarian commentary contained in the NET warns against - reading later trinitarianism into the text.

The passage had meaning to Moses. Moses is a Jew.

Moses isn’t a trinitarian.

What did the passage mean to Moses?

Historical context : Paul, like Jesus and all 12 of the original apostles, was Jewish.

Love

Trinitarians.

I’ll stand up for and defend the integrity of the trinitarian scholars you’re assailing. I’m persuaded by their teaching on the passage, not by your opinion. Read everything thoughtfully and critically.

“So, listen to Jesus instead.” That’s an excellent suggestion. Jesus himself is a Jewish monotheist, not a trinitarian. His God is the Father, not the Trinity. By definition and by practice, Jesus himself is a unitarian. The trinitarian scholars I’ve quoted, and many, many more that I could...

If you don’t find trinitarian scholarship persuasive then don’t believe it. In regard to Genesis 1:26, I’m persuaded by the trinitarian scholars I quoted. I’m not not persuaded by you. You’ve chosen tradition over and against original context.

Dr. Brown is a well known trinitarian scholar. The video is a clip from his call-in radio program, “Line of Fire”. You stand refuted by trinitarian scholarship.

“Christians have traditionally seen [Genesis 1:26] as adumbrating the Trinity. It is now universally admitted that this was not what the plural meant to the original author.” (Gordon J. Wenham, Word Biblical Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1, p. 27)