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“Trinity” is a contraction of two words: “Tri,” meaning “three” and “Unity,” meaning “one” and so expresses the truth that GOD IS ONE IN ESSENCE AND THREE IN PERSONS. This truth must be maintained over-against the error of Unitarianism and the errors of the Tritheist and Polytheist. The former makes
The Holy Family response, the church may well ask whether it is preaching the gospel of grace. The same is true as regards trinitarian doctrine. If the charge of tritheism is not raised, a theologian may well wonder whether his doctrine of God does justice to God's threeness. Every strong expression
The author goes in, like Peter pushing past John into the empty tomb, believing what he sees, and writes: “Only if a doctrine of the Trinity draws the charge of tritheism can it be assured that it is doing justice to the threeness of God” (51). He then puts together two pieces of the grand puzzle of
Further, it should be made clear that by the doctrine of the trinity we do not mean any scheme of tritheism; nor any theory of a modal trinity, according to which the one solitary god manifests himself in three modes of action; nor any sub-ordinationist position; nor a mere economical trinity, which
13. If someone does not believe in the Trinity, what kind of god are they worshiping?
practices is steadily growing. At its core, this is Eastern mysticism, which, as I have repeatedly asserted, is inherently pantheistic. It has more in common with the Star Wars Jedi religion or Hinduism than with Christianity. One is encouraged to quiet the soul and clear the mind of all thought. Th
To believe that God is one implies in the first place that we believe that there is only one God. The Scriptures surely emphasize this truth. We read in Deut. 6:4: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." This passage could probably be better translated: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is a
-- 26 of 82 -- Barth a Modalist? them out with discretion and judgment. The Reformed believer is able to see the doctrine of the Trinity clearly in an abundance of texts in the Old Testament! The only obscurity concerns the number of the persons in God. The relative obscurity of the Old Testament c
Neither is the error of Tritheism taught in our Confessions. It is true, that, reading them hastily and superficially, one might be tempted to draw this conclusion. We read, e.g. in Art. 8 of our Confession of Faith: "According to this truth and this Word of God, we believe in one only God, Who is t
This truth of the unity of God may not be corrupted by our doctrine of the threefoldness of God's internal triune existence. Both aspects of the doctrine, as we said, are under attack, especially as they are bound up with the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Christian faith confesses but on Go