Sunday, October 5, 2014

G.L. Prestige on the Trinity

One argument those of us who oppose historical (creedal) Trinitarianism make is that it would be incomprehensible to the original followers of Christ and the New Testament apostles, as it requires categories and a worldview absolutely unknown, if not antithetical to, Jewish Christianity. Try as they can to show the alleged biblical and historical basis for this belief, the more honest Trinitarian apologists and scholars are often forced to admit this, and in the process, show the internal contradictions within this man-made dogma. Take, for instance, G.L. Prestige’s comment in his book God in Patristic Thought (1936), p.301:


By a full use of the subtlety of Greek thought and language, [the Trinity] was laid down that God is a single objective Being in three objects of presentation . . . Alternatively, the result of the extended theological process may be summed up, in the language more modern than any used by a Greek Father, but in loyalty to the spirit and meaning of Greek theology, in the formula that in God there are three divine organs of God-consciousness, but one centre o divine self-consciousness. As seen and thought, He is true; as seeing and thinking, He is one. He is one eternal principle of life and light and love.