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Historical orthodox trinitarianism. I was raised Southern Baptist. It’s not possible that Jesus was a human person in trinitarian theology.

Trinitarianism says Jesus isn’t a human person but when I read about Jesus in scripture I’m reading about a human person.

“The orthodox doctrine of the incarnation promulgated at the Council of Chalcedon is emphatic that in the incarnate Christ there is one and only one, undivided person who has two distinct natures, one human and one divine. That one person is the second person of the Trinity, the Son, and is...

It’s a simple matter to verify that he was a trinitarian. Just because we’re able to agree with someone in part doesn’t mean that we must agree with someone in full. Hardly. I’ve noticed that you’ve quoted and/or alluded to various unitarian writers and expressed agreement with at least...

William Barclay was a trinitarian. Would it be wise for non-trinitarians to follow the spirit of your approach and say that because he was trinitarian what he said was nonsense? I don’t think so. The intelligent way to evaluate what Barclay said (or what anyone else says, for that matter) is to...

”All the previous lightning flashes pale into insignificance before the blaze of this passage. When Jesus said to the Jews that Abraham had rejoiced to see his day, he was talking language that they could understand. The Jews had many beliefs about Abraham which would enable them to see what...

YHWH is the Tetragrammaton, the proper / personal name of the one God. Elohim (Hebrew) is a generic title; it is used in OT scripture in regard to the one God, human beings, angels and idols. Theos (Greek) is also a generic title; it is used in the NT (and in the Greek translation of the OT...

“1. The one God. (a) theos is the most frequent designation of God in the NT. Belief in the one, only, and unique God (Matt. 23:9; Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 8:4,6; Gal. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:5; Jas. 2:19) is an established part of Christian tradition. Jesus himself made the fundamental confession of Jud. his...

My stance is that in order for a theology to be valid every passage of scripture bearing on the subject of who the one true God is must align with Jesus’ theology.

“2. Nouns with Plural Form Only The following nouns are found in plural form only. They are plural in form but may be singular or plural in meaning. God elohim mercy … life … face (m. or f.) … water … sky, heaven …” (Menahem Mansoor, Biblical Hebrew Step By Step, Vol. 1. Second Edition...

I’m a licensed unitarian pastor, retired. I’m also an adjunct theology professor, retired. Though it has no particular bearing on theological discussions, I’m also a civil / environmental engineer, retired. I understand what unitarianism is. (Trinitarianism, too.)

Welcome! Elohim is always plural in form but may be either singular or plural in meaning, depending on context. When used in reference to the one God it is always singular in meaning.

Do you deny that a person who’s God is only one person is, by definition, unitarian? I don’t.

It should be obvious to you by now, if it wasn’t already, that your understanding of scripture doesn’t destroy the unitarianism of Jesus.

The God of Jesus is only one person, the Father. That makes him unitarian.

It isn’t unitarianism. Jesus is unitarian. How does what you believe destroy his unitarian belief?