Final Flashcards
(41 cards)
Around how many Old Testament verses state God is absolutely numerically one?
Around 3000
What is the faulty approach or lens that trinitarian’s bring to the New Testament and what does it do to the Old Testament revelation of God?
2nd-4th cent➡️NT➡️❌OT
What is the better approach or lens that oneness people bring to the New Testament and what does it take you to the later philosophy?
OT➡️NT➡️ ❌ 2nd-4th cent philosophy
How do you our approaches to the Old Testament reveal our conscious or unconscious attitude to God’s revelation?
Oneness respect Old testament and proves we take self revelation seriously
Explain how Genesis 1:26 is not about a Trinity.
Jews traditionally interpreted it to mean God talks to Angels at creation.
On at least one other occasion God talk to Angels and requested their opinions in formulating plans.( Kings 22:19- 22)
How do you explain the God or Elohim in Gen 1:1 is not a proof of the Trinity?
It is a unit-plural noun with singular modifiers
When Elohim is used of God what is always accompanied by?
Singular verbs or modifiers
If Elohim is used on more than one false god what is it always accompanied by?
Plural verbs or modifiers
When Scripture says Moses( Ex. 7:1), Samuel( 1 Sam. 28:13-14), and all of the individual judges of Israel (Ps. 82:6) are called “elohim” what does this prove regarding God?
It means they cannot be at Trinity and neither can God
How does the inspired New Testament translation of the inspired Old Testament verses calling God Elohim proove that God is absolutely numerically one?
In the New Testament Elohim is always translated as God in the singular never plural
What are the two things represented in Dan. 7 and Rev. 5?
They show the eternal God and the man Jesus, the Holy Ghost is missing.
How do you prove Revelation 5 is not about persons in a so called Trinity?
No trinitarian would say Jesus will be called a lion and yet actually be a slain lamb standing with seven eyes and seven horns
How does the Bible show in another passage Daniel 7 in Revelation 5 Are not separate persons?
Because in Revelation 1 we see a blended picture of the Son of man in the ancient of days in Christ.
Explain why Isaiah 6:3 is repeating, “ Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty…” does not prove a Trinity..
There is no superlative in Hebrew. It shows repetition like, “ earth, earth, earth…”
The oneness message disappear after the fourth century and slowly make a come back in the 19th century?
No, there has always been oneness believers
According to Tertullian’s writing “ Against Praxeus” what was the dominant belief still in the second century in what was the minority view?
Oneness
Trinatarian position
What things does “Father/Son” language in the NT show?
What God did as humanity and what God did as deity
How did God make the world by the Son?
He created it with Christ in view
Prove Jesus is not having A conversation with another person in the Trinity on the cross showing what He is quoting.
Psalms 22
What is Jesus saying will happen through His suffering?
His Reign
What are the two major questions you asked almost all “passages of distinction” that prove the distinction is about the human/divine relationship not persons in the Trinity?
Where is the missing Holy Spirit?
Can this be about a co-equal Trinity?
Prove that Jesus’ prayers cannot be about a Trinity explaining why the essence of the doctrine of the Trinity would be violated.
God can’t pray to God or one isn’t co-equal
At his baptism what three roles is Jesus stepping into?
Prophet, priest, and king
Show why it was important for Jesus as a man to be baptized and anointed and include a statement from Christ himself as to point of doing this.
To fulfill all righteousness, as the Old Testament commands a priest to be washed and like all prophets, priest, and kings, He had to be anointed.
