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What the doctrine of the Trinity claims

Concepts, biblical grounding and the limits of comparisons.

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A01 · Objection and responseThe word Trinity is absent from the BibleWhy a doctrine's binding authority depends on its content and how the biblical statements fit together.Read more ↗A02 · Objection and responseWhat being, person and God meanHow a statement about essence differs from a designation of a person — directly from John's Gospel.Read more ↗A03 · Objection and responseAre three persons necessarily three distinct beings?Why human individuality is no standard to which God's personhood may be subordinated.Read more ↗A04 · Objection and responseMany models—an arbitrary doctrine?How we distinguish the biblical doctrinal core from its philosophical explanation.Read more ↗A05 · Objection and responseWhy water, an egg and a cloverleaf are insufficientWhat a comparison can achieve — and why God's truth needs no illustrative model.Read more ↗A06 · Objection and responseCircular reasoning and escape into mystery?Why taking God's revelation as the starting point requires careful justification.Read more ↗A07 · Objection and responseThree names are not yet proof—what do the texts really say?Baptism, blessing and fellowship with God reveal the meaning of the joint naming.Read more ↗A08 · Objection and responseWhy exactly three persons?The number three follows from God's self-revelation, not from a calculation with attributes.Read more ↗
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