Dr Craig, in your opinion, is the Shield of the Trinity Scutum Fide, a valid Trinitarian

diagram? The famous Trinitarian diagram?

The famous Trinitarian triangle where the father, the son,

the spirit, are at the corners, and God is at the center connected to all three by is.

You have said, only the Trinity is God.

While the statement, The Trinity is God, is an identity statement.

Statements about the persons like,

The Father is God are not identity statements.

So you would replace God with the Trinity, but then you have the Father is the Trinity and the Trinity is the Father, etc.

I have not yet heard your thoughts on the diagram, so could you clarify them for us.

Philip from the United States.

Thank you for your question, Philip.

Many of our listeners may not be familiar with this so-called shield of the Trinity,

so let me describe it as best I can.

It is basically a triangle in which the angles are labeled father, son, and

Holy Spirit. And at the center of the triangle is a circle that is labeled God.

Then there are different connections between these circles.

Each of the persons is said to be God, but each of the persons

is said not to be one of the other persons.

So the father is not the son, the son is not the spirit,

the spirit is not the father,

but the father is God, the son is God, and the Spirit is God. Now the utility of this arresting

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