Sem 2 Flashcards
Around how many OT verses state God is absolutely one?
Around 3,000
Where must all revelation about God start?
Why must it start there?
Where is the source?
- From God’s self revelation
- Because we are fallen
- In the bible
How do our approaches to the OT reveal our conscious or unconscious attitude to God’s revelation?
Oneness people respect the OT and prove we take the process of God’s self-revelation seriously
Explain how Gen 1:26 is not about a trinity.
Shows he’s talking to the Angels, majestic plurally.
How do you explain the “God” or “Elohim” in Gen 1:1 is not a proof of the trinity?
It is a uni-plural noun with singular modifiers
When “Elohim” is used of God what is it always accompanied by?
Singular verbs or modifiers
When scripture says Moses, Samuel, and all of the individual judges of Israel are called “Elohim” what does that prove regarding God?
It means they cannot be a trinity and neither can God
How does the inspired NT translation of the inspired OT verses calling God, Elohim, prove that God is absolutely numerically one?
NT Elohim is always translated God in the singular, never plural
What are the two things represented in Daniel 7 and Rev 5? What’s missing?
- The eternal God
- The man Jesus
- Third person of the trinity is missing-Holy Ghost
How do you prove Rev 5 is not about persons in a so called trinity?
No Trinitarian would say that Jesus would be called a Lion who will be a slain lamb standing with seven eyes and horns
How does the bible show in another passage Dan 7 and Rev 5 are not separate persons?
In Rev 1 we see a blended picture of the son of man and the ancient of days in Christ
Explain why Isaiah 6:3 repeating “Holy holy holy, Lord God Almighty” does not prove a trinity.
No superlative and it’s just repetition like “O earth earth earth”
Did the oneness message disappear after the fourth century and slowly make a come back in the 19th century?
No. It’s always existed
According to Tertullian’s writing “Against Praxeus” what was the dominant belief still in the 2nd century and what was the minority view?
Dominate- Oneness
Minority- Trinitarian
What two things does Father/Son language in the NT show?
What God did as humanity and what he did as deity.
How did God make the world by the son?
Created the world with Christ in view
Prove Jesus is not having a conversation with another person in the trinity on the cross by showing what he is quoting.
Psalm 22
What is Jesus saying will happen through His suffering?
Through this suffering he will reign
What are the two major questions you ask 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 coequal 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 coequal
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.
He is doing it to fulfill all righteousness- The OT commands a priest to be washed and like all prophets, priests and kings he had to be anointed.
What two images are represented in Philippians 2:5-11?
Adam and the suffering servant
What role did Jesus have to fulfill and what would have violated it?
Suffering servant
How does Phil 2:5-11 show the language of exaltation is about the man Jesus and refute the doctrine of co-equality?
He’s exalted above the father and the spirit
What two witnesses does Jesus say testify if the truthfulness of his ministry and using the OT show why this can’t be a trinity.
It’s the perfect man Jesus and the working of the eternal spirit working through him.
Wha is the best way to reach a Trinitarian?
Show them Jesus the father and the spirit are all the same spirit, who’s in Christ.
List scripture to explain whether Jesus is in the godhead or is the godhead in Jesus?
Col 2:9
How does the “Trinitarian shield” help us in witnessing by moving us to a more specific starting point of conversation?
By not proving Jesus is God and there is only one God, but showing Jesus the father in the spirit are the eternal spirit
Refute using scripture that he son is not the father incarnate.
Isaiah 9:6
Refute using scripture that the Holy Spirit is not Jesus
Romans 8:9-10
Refute using scripture that the father is not the holt spirit.
Eph 4:4-6
When did the trinity become fully developed in history and what two things from class did we show this prove about the doctrine?
381 AD
Not in the NT
It was developed by man
The council of Constantinople
Finally FULL developed doctrine of the trinity
Post-Apostolic Age
Language much like the NT
Greek Apologists
Jesus is not coequal with the father and the spirit is even a lesser rank
Old Catholic Age
The coin the term trinity and the ideas of one Hod or 3 persons are circulating although r some still say 2
The Council of Nices
Finally son is eternal- but the spirit isn’t seen as a person fully created yet
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man of Christ Jesus
James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the Devils also believe and tremble.
John 20:28
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God
