tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post3621079811936655768..comments2024-03-15T20:15:34.428+13:00Comments on ξενος: Was Paul a Trinitarian?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-4137110431445949232011-08-30T09:20:33.766+12:002011-08-30T09:20:33.766+12:00Hi Glenn, welcome to the blog, I've enjoyed yo...Hi Glenn, welcome to the blog, I've enjoyed yours before. I hope you didn't spend too long working out the odds of that one. ;-)Jonathan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295840754661890186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-68053024320092648452011-08-30T02:04:43.950+12:002011-08-30T02:04:43.950+12:00I think it's more likely he was a Rhino's ...I think it's more likely he was a Rhino's fan.Glen Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01893819289223413110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-44821565999003199112011-08-29T11:39:28.621+12:002011-08-29T11:39:28.621+12:00Hi Scott, thanks for stopping by. I wouldn't ...Hi Scott, thanks for stopping by. I wouldn't burn anyone over anything, being a good anabaptist that I am. However I think you miss the point that in different historical circumstances people have asked different questions and needed to respond to different issues. Jesus and Paul didn't spell out their answers to those questions because in their time those questions weren't being asked.Jonathan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295840754661890186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-35443740180379161552011-08-27T01:11:04.234+12:002011-08-27T01:11:04.234+12:00Much like your Pauline "therefore" adden...Much like your Pauline "therefore" addendum to the Chalcedon Creed, the point of his and the Gospelteers treatment of God's, Christ's and the Spirit's relationship is that it is not at all central to the Kingdom of God. Love God and your neighbor and you are most of the way there. The rest is commentary, as they say. <br /><br />If neither Paul nor the evangelists (or Jesus?!) thought it was important enough to spell out, then perhaps we shouldn't have burned people over it. On the other hand it is a little know fact that in the oldest and best manuscript evidence we have for the Pericope Adulterae Jesus actually says, "Go and believe that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one in substance but three in person."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-30670195865474196462011-08-25T10:13:41.510+12:002011-08-25T10:13:41.510+12:00Thanks Nick, good quote.Thanks Nick, good quote.Jonathan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295840754661890186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-13435184270791219002011-08-24T02:38:20.829+12:002011-08-24T02:38:20.829+12:00In times like these I always go back to a Fee quot...In times like these I always go back to a Fee quotation. He says, "One way to do that was to assert, on a regular basis, that if the New Testament reflected Trinitarianism, it did so in an incipient, nonreflective way, so that, whatever else, “it was not the Trinitarianism of a later day such as Chalcedon.” but that seems so self-evident that one wonders why it needed to be repeated so often." (<i>God's Empowering Presence</i>, 827). See <a href="http://rdtwot.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/on-trinitarianism/" rel="nofollow">here</a> for more context.Nick Norellihttp://rdtwot.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com