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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster
But Brother, if they may mean to agree with our thinking why are they so vehemently predisposed to call us a cult because of our view on the Godhead? The reason is that modern trinitarianism views the term "persons" to represent what we normally think of a person as. Distinction. Not in manifestation - but in presence of being.
We can all talk about what was ORIGINALLY MEANT by trinitarians but the simple truth is we are all left with what is presently accepted by modern trinitarians. That is the One God-three persons ideal. Coequal, coexistent, coeternal.
Surely none of you deny the reality that orthodox trinitarianism accepts the notion of God in three persons?
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What was originally meant is the only correct version of the trinity doctrine. I agree that most modern trinitarians think of "persons" and use it in a way that is synonymous with "beings" but that is not what the original doctrine taught. I agree that many modern statements of faith use phrases like "co-equal, co-eternal divine persons" but such developments came not from the Nicene and Ante-Nicene fathers but by subsequent theologians who changed the doctrine (such as Cyril insisting that "hypostasis" be used individually for Father, Son and Holy Spirit even though that isn't how
Hebrews 1:3 uses it).
I do deny that orthodox trinitarianism accepts the notion of God in three persons because the English language didn't exist when the orthodox doctrine (as opposed to Orthodox doctrine) was developed in the first four centuries A.D. and "persons" is specifically an English word.
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