Does the Trinity have a counting problem? How can Jesus be both all-knowing in his divinity and not all-knowing in his humanity at the same time? Doesn’t John 20:17 show that Jesus isn’t God because he has a God? These are just some of the objections to the Trinity that I have received from TikTok livestreams.

Today’s show will walk through some of the objections to the Trinity and show that the Trinity is logical and biblical.

Content Discussed

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 3:11 A look at future shows
  • 6:32 What is the Trinity?
  • 9:43 Why does the Trinity have to be logical?
  • 15:37 The Trinity has a mathematical problem, Understanding nature vs personhood language
  • 28:07 Does Jesus being fully God and fully man violate the law of noncontradiction?
  • 37:22 Is the Trinity biblical?
  • 40:17 How can Jesus be God if John
  • 20:17 says that he has a God?
  • 48:15 What do you mean by “nature”?
  • 51:16 How do you distinguish between something that is logical but beyond understanding and something that is illogical?
  • 52:12 Are Christians confusing entities with concepts?
  • 53:36 The complexity of theology compared to biology
  • 56:47 Is my explanation of the Trinity special pleading?
  • 58:50 Jesus and the Father do not share the same mind because Jesus didn’t know things that the Father knew.
  • 1:03:19 Why say there are three persons when the Bible clearly says one God?
  • 1:04:11 Is my analogy of Cerberus an example of the partialism heresy?
  • 1:05:23 Was Yahweh considered to be a person?
  • 1:08:43 How does the Trinity work when Jesus takes on the sins of man? Did God become sinful?
  • 1:10:37 Why is Jesus the high priest or intermediary between God and man? Did Jesus have to be fully man?
  • 1:13:48 What can we claim to know when it comes to the Trinity? Can we fully understand it? If not, does that mean it is contradictory?
  • 1:14:47 Caller: Were Christian views of the Trinity, virgin birth, resurrection, and Samson taken from pagan mythologies?
  • 1:36:05 Caller: How can we make sense of the Trinitarian language of essence, substance, nature, being, subsistence, and person?

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