Trinity

doctrine · 18 episodes

223The Upper Room Discourse 18 Aug 2025 22:26¶ 75 “This is one of the places where we see the way in which they draw us into the midst of the Trinity, in fellowship…” 27:24¶ 93 “This is one of our examples of how we look at the character and nature of our Triune God, and it informs how we…” 11:48¶ 36 “He has saved trinitarian doctrine for now, the relationship of himself and the father, the place of the Holy Spirit, the coming of the…”

135Conspiracy Theory 12 Sep 2022 8:30¶ 32 “Let’s begin. Where is the original impulse? What’s the archetype for conspiracy? The archetype for everything is the Triune life of God, and the…” 9:04¶ 33 “Do the Persons of the Trinity on their own without any outside help and without ever telling everybody exactly what their plans are come…” 12:39¶ 43 “Backing up through all of this, the point is this idea of communing together and making somewhat secret plans and then bringing them to…”

103Rebellion and Witchcraft 31 Jan 2022 28:41¶ 110 “There’s no conflict within the Trinity. There’s absolute harmony and mutual submission within the Trinity to accomplish what they have decreed. It’s written down,…” 28:08¶ 109 “Again we can fall back here on all of the pagan myths where the sons and daughters of God did rebel against their father…”

77Achan's Sin 2 Aug 2021 10:21¶ 38 “God ordained families. God ordained commonwealths. God ordained church, local congregations and the body of Christ collectively, because God created man in his image.…” 10:50¶ 39 “The Son is the image of the Father, the image of the living God. He’s his Logos, the very word of his heart. He…” 11:06¶ 40 “So when we look at the Son we see the Father, and from both the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally, and from eternity into time,…”

70Science and Wonder 23 May 2021 37:08¶ 122 “We come to the Bible, and the Bible gives us one God. As the Bible unfolds, we find this God is three persons. The…” 37:33¶ 123 “Now, if you want to change the labels, one person + one person + one person does involve one divine being. That’s better, but…” 38:19¶ 126 “If you talk about the Father and then talk about the Son, you’ve added one person to one person in your conversation, and yes…”

61Liberty and Responsibility 28 Feb 2021 3:30¶ 11 “When we introduce or begin to look at God as Trinity, we don’t have any problems there either because God is one. He’s metaphysically…” 4:05¶ 12 “There is even in this shared communion and community still perfect freedom. Each does as he pleases because each wills what the other wills.…”

47Moved with Passion 22 Nov 2020 23:03¶ 70 “It’s as old as Augustine, and Jonathan Edwards has a couple good quotes, repeated by John Piper at Desiring God. Let’s just start with…” 23:52¶ 72 “Augustine’s solution was to say that when the Bible says God is love, it’s specifically speaking of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit…” 24:25¶ 73 “When we say the Father loves the Son, what we’re saying is that they are bound together, the Father initiating by breathing forth the…”

46Faithful Witness 15 Nov 2020 35:21¶ 138 “As I look at the flow of the argument, I think it’s essential because we’re talking in that section about what we’re talking about…” 35:50¶ 139 “If the Bible should ever vanish from the earth, God’s Word is forever settled in heaven. It’s settled in his very nature and being,…” 36:18¶ 140 “This is where we start. This is where on this podcast we’ve tried to always go to ground us in the being of God,…”

45Divine Property 8 Nov 2020 28:53¶ 100 “Lewis I think hits it when he says, “The words ‘my, mine.’” Where does that come from? Where does this ‘my, mine’ thing come…” 30:07¶ 102 “When the Father and the Son say ‘my’ to one another, that is the ‘my’ of complete equality because they are one God, one…” 29:14¶ 101 “That relationship is eternal and it’s unique, and when God created it existed. In fact, in Proverbs 8 Wisdom, the eternal Logos who’s the…”

44Yahweh's Bride 1 Nov 2020 8:25¶ 25 “So at the risk of having repeated myself a million times, the standard creedal confession is that the Father is of none, neither created…” 9:40¶ 28 “Augustine of Hippo, in wrestling with this in his book on the Trinity, argues that the Father breathes the Spirit to the Son, the…” 10:28¶ 30 “It’s he and not it. We have to keep remembering that because when we think of our own love, we are definitely talking about…”

42The Metaphysics of Life 18 Oct 2020 14:16¶ 41 “One thing we’ve been doing in this podcast, and particularly with the Ten Commandments, has been to try to root all of God’s revelation…” 14:55¶ 42 “These are not three members of a club called God, nor is it God broken into three parts (Partialism, Patrick!) nor is God evolving…” 15:17¶ 43 “There’s a metaphysical oneness, a shared reality, a shared essence or being. Unity is eternal and so is diversity. That diversity is not an…”

41The Metaphysics of Fatherhood 11 Oct 2020 8:32¶ 26 “He is not an abstract distinction-less unity. In himself is fullness of life. His nature is a generative fruitful essence. It is capable of…” 12:44¶ 36 “The phrase I’ve used a lot lately is God is the self-revealing God. God reveals himself and his Son, who is his very image,…” 7:49¶ 23 “He is Father and Son to the point that the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father and they talk to…”

12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress 22 Mar 2020 27:41¶ 104 “One of the incredible things in Christian thinking is that God begets his Son, and the Son does only those things that please his…” 29:06¶ 108 “Exactly. In the doctrine of the Trinity we have the possibility of hopeful eschatology. The end can match the glory of the beginning. In…” 31:08¶ 113 “This step into history with the second person of the Trinity shows that God has not given up on the universe because the universe…”

6Trinity (part 3) 9 Feb 2020 0:53¶ 6 “Well, we haven’t talked enough about the love among the persons of the Trinity. That’s what we were hoping to start off with today…” 1:27¶ 7 “The God of the deists and of the Muslim requires, if he’s going to show love – which the Muslim God doesn’t necessarily –…” 7:18¶ 20 “Returning to God then, we know that the Son is the Father’s Word. The Spirit then is his breath, the breath that proceeds. The…”

5Trinity (part 2) 2 Feb 2020 4:06¶ 15 “There’s only one God. The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God, but there’s only one God, and yet…” 35:35¶ 123 “It seems to me that the thing we have not talked about and need to, particularly in an age that’s confronted by Islam, is…” 38:40¶ 130 “When we don’t acknowledge the biblical doctrine of the Trinity, the true personhood of the Father and the Son communicating in the Holy Spirit…”

4Trinity (part 1) 26 Jan 2020 3:15¶ 13 “We’ve talked about God’s unity and simplicity. There is one God. He does not come in pieces and parts. And as we’ve been doing,…” 3:48¶ 14 “They are described each as thinking, planning, contending, and communicating. They’re described as choosing, willing, acting. And they’re described as loving, being grieved, experiencing…” 14:49¶ 53 “To talk about the Trinity, we need to understand there are profound implications for the simplest things of what we call Christianity – our…”

3Chaos, Order, and Origins 19 Jan 2020 35:03¶ 92 “We’ve spoken already in previous podcasts of this God who exists eternally, a self-existing God who is three persons – Father, Son, and Holy…”

1Oneness 5 Jan 2020 25:04¶ 89 “We’ve talked about the unity of God, and I suppose now we need to talk about his triunity. As I said, one of the…” 25:47¶ 92 “The two most obvious ways of dealing with that that are thoroughly unbiblical are 1) to divide God into three parts, or three members…” 33:03¶ 120 “So creeds. We’ll talk about creeds another day. We really should just devote an entire discussion to creeds and confessions, but for now we’ll…”