R. Andrew
DeFord, a former Christadelphian
who is now a Reformed
Protestant, made the following admission that Trinitarians do
engage in equivocation about the meaning and function of the term “God”
(something many other Trinitarians deny):
“God” can be used as a personal title, like “
. . . and God said . . . “ or as a relational term like “. . . my God . . . “
Trinitarians, at time, are accused of equivocating when using the word “God” of
any of three persons of the Trinity or the Trinity as a whole. This is a far
charge and I do think triniarians can be sloppy with how we speak . . . When I
use the term “God” of Jesus or the Spirit, I mean that they are deity. For me,
to say that “Jesus is God” means that I am related to Him as a creature is
related to his Creator. (R. Andrew DeFord, The
Triune God and the Doctrine of the Covenant: Answering Unitarian Objections to
the Doctrine of the Trinity [2018], 9)
