One God, Three Persons: The Logical Case for the Trinity

Does the Trinity have a counting problem? How can Jesus be both all-knowing in his divinity and not all-knowing in his humanity at the same time? Doesn't John 20:17 show that Jesus isn't God because he has a God? These are just some of the objections to the Trinity that I have received from TikTok livestreams.

Today's show will walk through some of the objections to the Trinity and show that the Trinity is logical and biblical. Join the conversation and ask your questions! I'll be taking calls in the 2nd part of the show.

Other videos on the Trinity
1. (1 Hour) Understand the Trinity and Avoid Heresy (Dr. Fred Sanders) - https://www.youtube.com/live/JjbuirKw...
2. (4 min) Is the Trinity logical? -    • Is the Trinity logical?  
3. (6 min) Is the Trinity biblical? -    • Is the Trinity biblical?  
4. (6 min) What are some bad analogies for the Trinity? -    • What are some bad analogies for the Trinity?  
5. (1 min) Can the Trinity be proven without the Bible? -    • Can the Trinity be proven without the Bible?  

Content Discussed
0:00 Intro
3:11 A look at future shows
6:32 What is the Trinity?
9:43 Why does the Trinity have to be logical?
15:37 The Trinity has a mathematical problem, Understanding nature vs personhood language
28:07 Does Jesus being fully God and fully man violate the law of noncontradiction?
37:22 Is the Trinity biblical?
40:17 How can Jesus be God if John 20:17 says that he has a God?
48:15 What do you mean by "nature"?
51:16 How do you distinguish between something that is logical but beyond understanding and something that is illogical?
52:12 Are Christians confusing entities with concepts?
53:36 The complexity of theology compared to biology
56:47 Is my explanation of the Trinity special pleading?
58:50 Jesus and the Father do not share the same mind because Jesus didn't know things that the Father knew.
1:03:19 Why say there are three persons when the Bible clearly says one God?
1:04:11 Is my analogy of Cerberus an example of the partialism heresy?
1:05:23 Was Yahweh considered to be a person?
1:08:43 How does the Trinity work when Jesus takes on the sins of man? Did God become sinful?
1:10:37 Why is Jesus the high priest or intermediary between God and man? Did Jesus have to be fully man?
1:13:48 What can we claim to know when it comes to the Trinity? Can we fully understand it? If not, does that mean it is contradictory?
1:14:47 Caller: Were Christian views of the Trinity, virgin birth, resurrection, and Samson taken from pagan mythologies?
1:36:05 Caller: How can we make sense of Trinitarian language of essence, substance, nature, being, subsistence, and person?

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