Subject: An Argument from Silence and A Thought |
Bible Note: An Argument from Silence and A Thought on the History of the Doctrine of the Trinity It is interesting to note how the Pharisees do NOT argue against Christ’s claim of deity. Their argument was based on the humanity of Jesus. Their argument was that for a man to claim deity or equality with God is blasphemy. Jesus, a man, claims, by calling himself the Son of God, deity or equality with God. Therefore, Jesus is guilty of blasphemy. There argument was not based the unity of God. They did not argue: God is one. ANYONE else (man or angel) claiming to be God makes two gods, which is false and blasphemous. Someone else, Jesus, claims, by implication of certain affirmations, to be God. Therefore Jesus is guilty of blasphemy. Even after you had a sizable number of Jews who believed Jesus to be the Son of God, and thereby his claim to deity and equality with God, there does not seem to be, among the Jewish believers at least, a problem with the unity of God and the plurality of Persons, to include the Holy Spirit. And it would seem if anyone would have a problem that it would be the Jews who have had millennia of history with the “Here O Israel. The Lord our God is One Lord.” Instead, it is when the New Testament Israel become predominantly Gentile that the unity of God in a plurality of Persons becomes a problem that they had to dig through the Scriptures to come up with a biblical formulation. But nonetheless, I thank God for their labors. Comments, corrections welcomed. Peace, |
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