Quick Cut: Why Focus On Semantics?

Kingdom Speak with Pastor Daniel McKillop

Daniel McKillop

Non-profit, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Christianity

4.9 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

🔎 Trinitarians may insist on using specific words when describing their belief of the Godhead, but there are challenges with that. Why not use God’s description of Himself as the starting point for a discussion? #KingdomSpeak #Podcast #Theology

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0:00.0	Let's say I'm not comfortable with those words. Let's say it different. No, no, no, no. You actually have to embrace the semantics of it. That it's one God and three persons. And there were some surprising people that had a problem with forcing others to embrace the semantics of it. Oddly enough, John Calvin being one of them, he did not want to tie people, force them to use that language.
0:25.3	Anyway, I think that's significant.
0:29.0	So it's not just that we can think a certain way.
0:30.9	We have to speak a certain way.
0:32.7	Well, forcing people to speak a certain way forces them to describe God in ways that God didn't describe God,
0:39.0	not in English, not in Greek, not in Hebrew.

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