Friday, May 8, 2020

Another Example of Trinitarian Apologists Speaking of God in Unitarian Terms


It is rather common for Trinitarians to speak as if God is a single person (Unitarianism) but then switches to “God” being, not a person, but a being and speak of there being three persons. Note the following from two Trinitarians where they contradict one another in the same paragraph(!):

The Judeo-Christian God is not an impersonal force. The Bible portrays God as a person who has exhaustive self-consciousness, has created and sustains all things . . . The Bible also presents God as one being (e.g., Deut 6:4; 1 Tim. 2:5-6) and yet, particularly in the New Testament, as an individual plurality of three eternal and divine persons . . . (Eric L. Johnson and Douglas S Huffman, “Should the God of Historic Christianity be Replaced?” in Douglas S. Huffman and Eric L. Johnson, eds. God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents God [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2002], 11-41, here, p. 33, italics in original)

As for whether Unitarianism is Christian, the authors wrote the following:

A Unitarian [is] not a Christian . . .(Ibid., 21)

One wonders if their claim that God is a person is also not Christian?