Comments on: Trinitarianism http://jerusalemcouncil.org/articles/apologetics/trinitarianism/ A Global Association of Orthodox Jewish Believers Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kurt Anders Richardson http://jerusalemcouncil.org/articles/apologetics/trinitarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Kurt Anders Richardson Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:11:50 +0000 http://jerusalemcouncil.org/?p=71#comment-211 I'm following both this and the Messiah as God question very sensitively and sympathetically. I am a strict monotheist as a Christian theologian, and trinitarian in the Johannine sense of the "I am" sayings of Jesus, his identity as the Logos of Gn 1 with God, is God, the eternal relationality between Himself and the Father he declares in his prayer of Jn 17. Rom 8 also presents the identity of the Spirit as God who knows the mind of God. These relations are real and not fictional. There have been many ways that the traditions avoid tri-theism, including Jewish theologies of divine fullness where key attributes almost begin to take on hypostatized qualities. On the incarnational side, the Elijah narrative indicates a degree of identitification with God already that anticipates the unique nature of Jesus as laid out in John's narratives of Jesus - his own declarations of eternal relation with the Father, and the teachings of Paul. Like you, I will not go beyond scripture. Yours, Kurt I’m following both this and the Messiah as God question very sensitively and sympathetically. I am a strict monotheist as a Christian theologian, and trinitarian in the Johannine sense of the “I am” sayings of Jesus, his identity as the Logos of Gn 1 with God, is God, the eternal relationality between Himself and the Father he declares in his prayer of Jn 17. Rom 8 also presents the identity of the Spirit as God who knows the mind of God. These relations are real and not fictional. There have been many ways that the traditions avoid tri-theism, including Jewish theologies of divine fullness where key attributes almost begin to take on hypostatized qualities. On the incarnational side, the Elijah narrative indicates a degree of identitification with God already that anticipates the unique nature of Jesus as laid out in John’s narratives of Jesus – his own declarations of eternal relation with the Father, and the teachings of Paul. Like you, I will not go beyond scripture.

Yours,
Kurt

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