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Erik Thoennes - How do you explain the Trinity?

Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis

Jonny Ardavanis

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5663 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis: Big Questions, Biblical Answers, is a series that seeks to provide biblical answers to some of the most prominent and fundamental questions regarding God, the Gospel, and the Bible

In this episode Pastor and Professor Erik Thoennes answers the question: “How do you explain the Trinity?”

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0:00.0

Hey guys, my name is Johnny Art of Annis and this is dial in.

0:03.0

In this episode, I sit down with pastor and professor Eric Tannis and ask him,

0:07.0

How would you define or explain the Trinity God being three and one?

0:11.0

Let's dial in.

0:17.0

Eric, thank you so much for sitting down with me.

0:22.2

I wanted to ask you one of the questions that many students and just many people within the church

0:27.8

asked today, and it would be how do you explain the Trinity?

0:32.6

We see it biblically, but we don't exactly even see that word in the Bible.

0:36.8

How would you define or explain the Trinity

0:38.9

God being three and one? Thanks, Johnny. I think that is so essential for us to consider because

0:46.4

the Trinity is at the very heart of who God is. And it's obviously one of the most incomprehensible,

0:51.8

if not most incomprehensible things we could ever

0:54.2

think about. And so what we tend to do is immediately go toward illustrations or images or

1:00.9

explanations that aren't coming out of the Bible. So we'll start talking about cherry pies and

1:06.2

eggs and water ice and steam and apple cores. Yeah. Because we want this kid, we're trying to explain this too to understand it,

1:14.2

and we go to illustrations, which I think quickly runs into Harrison, quite frankly.

1:20.0

I think it's better, even rather than using numerical approaches,

1:26.1

is to use really biblical pictures of this.

1:28.3

And I can't think of a better one than Jesus baptism,

1:32.3

where you see Jesus baptized the Son, anointed for ministry.

1:38.3

You see the Spirit descending as a dove,

1:40.3

anointing him for his ministry that's about to begin publicly. And then you have the

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