Timeline for How do Trinitarians distinguish which person the Bible is referring to throughout the scriptures when the three titles of the Godhead is not used?
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| Aug 1 at 16:05 | comment | added | Revelation Lad | @Anne Yes. Genesis has all three. A focus on Genesis grounds the NT understanding of Jesus as God. Once you start with "Let us make..." the question becomes who is included in us? Obviously you if you include the Father you cannot exclude the Son or the Spirit. Having shown the Christian understanding of God as triune or tripartite is from the OT, it is unnecessary to debate which of the three is described in a passage in which it is not specifically stated. | |
| Aug 1 at 8:08 | comment | added | Anne | Further to your point on God creating man in "our image and likeness", where you say, "the New Testament 'let us make' identifies Father and Son" - The Holy Spirit is also identified as in Job 33:4, Isa. 42:5 & 48:16, 2 Cor.3:14-18 perhaps? That does not disagree with all your excellent points, or why you focus on Genesis as an example of it being unnecessary to unwind the three. It actually substantiates it! +1 | |
| Aug 1 at 2:15 | comment | added | Revelation Lad | @Mr.Bond I agree. But you are missing my point. What you say is correct only after the New Testament revelation. Rigid monotheism applied to Isaiah without NT revelation is not as clear. Hence the focus on Genesis and realization trying to unwind the three is unnecessary. | |
| Jul 31 at 23:08 | comment | added | Mr. Bond | I see you referenced Isaiah 6:1. The Apostle John identifies who's sitting on the throne at John 12:41. These things Isaiah said, because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him." The verb Isaiah used for "saw" is "ra'ah." In the qal, it refers to the act of seeing in the literal sense, to see with the eyes (as opposed to "machazeh" which is the act of an ecstatic "vision." In referring to this event, John uses the Greek word "eidon," also a verb referring to the act of seeing with the eyes in the natural sense. This is not God the Father because the Father cannot be seen. | |
| Jul 31 at 15:04 | history | answered | Revelation Lad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |