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What Tactical Approach Should I Take with Someone Who Says the Trinity Isn’t Biblical?

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Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Questions about a good approach to take with someone who says the Trinity isn’t biblical, how to respond to Jehovah’s Witnesses who say Jesus received authority to forgive sins in Luke 4:18–19, and whether God “was looking for friends to collaborate with on running the world.”

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0:00.0

I'm Amy Hall, and you're listening to Stand to Reason's hashtag STRASC podcast with Greg Kokel, starring Greg Kokel.

0:20.1

I don't say that.

0:22.0

I am here.

0:23.0

That's it.

0:24.0

Okay, Greg.

0:25.0

We have some kind of tactical-type questions here.

0:29.8

The first one comes from Robert.

0:31.5

What is a tactical approach when in conversation with someone who says the Trinity isn't biblical,

0:36.9

that the Trinitarian view is adopted

0:38.5

much later in church history.

0:41.5

Well, I guess if you're taking a tactical approach, you'd ask for more clarification. So when you say it

0:47.6

isn't biblical, do you mean the concepts are not taught in Scripture? And if you're saying it adopted

0:54.1

later in church history,

0:55.3

when later did the doctrine of the Trinity as such get invented?

1:01.1

So those are clarification questions.

1:04.9

Another question that's important is,

1:06.9

what is your understanding of the meaning of the Trinity?

1:17.0

Okay. And simply put, there is one God.

1:24.3

The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are separate persons, or centers of consciousness, if you will,

1:31.8

but they are not separate beings. They are all equally share the nature of the one God. Okay. Now, all we're doing is clarifying at this point. We are not advancing our case,

1:39.6

and what I just offered is probably the most crisp way of putting it. One, what, and three

1:47.1

whos, others have put it, but I think you need a little bit more detail. And the reason I put it

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