God Has Spoken

This Summer’s Great Trinitarian Debate

Earlier this summer, back in June, I wrote one very long blog post, that was divided into two and was put out there, which caused some reaction. The last I counted 250 blogs or comments or posts followed that particular post. And it was about the Trinity. You can just Google it for yourself and find out what it was all about. One of the things I learned from that Great Trinitarian Debate of 2016 is that evangelical people cannot agree about who God is. Now that is not to say that the churches cannot agree. In fact, it is the most agreed-about thing in all of Christian history. And if you look up the statements of faith of the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran church, the Christian Reformed churches, Presbyterian churches, even Reformed Baptist churches, you will unanimity, harmony and agreement about who God is. We have our great creeds of our faith. We have the great confessions of our church and they are all united in what we believe about God. But apparently evangelicals are not agreed on who God is and it’s very vital, isn’t it? Because if I happen to be worshipping he wrong God, or I say things about God that are not true of God, what am I doing? Well, I’m committing blasphemy. I’m committing idolatry. And I’m committing heresy. So it’s a very serious business. If eternal life is contingent on knowing God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, the ‘knowing God’ bit is as vital as me ‘knowing Jesus Christ’ bit.
==“It is the witness of Scripture that revelation is the joint activity of the Father, the Son and the Spir
==“We’re not saying that the Father has some of God, the Son has some of God and the Spirit has some of God.”