Category Archives: Trinity

Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part Two: Responding to Mormon Misrepresentations of the Trinity

Posted on September 4, 2018 by robbowman

In Part One of this response to LDS apologist Ronald Kimmons’s flow chart on the Trinity, I summarized his argument and replied to red herrings or misdirections included in that chart that are not germane to the issue of whether … Continue reading →

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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part One: Responding to Mormon Misdirection on the Trinity

Posted on August 23, 2018 by robbowman

Ronald Kimmons is a Latter-day Saint businessman with political ambitions, a self-described “digital marketing professional, linguist, and smartypants” who has also spent a lot of time answering questions on the popular Q&A website Quora. According to his Quora profile, Kimmons, … Continue reading →

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The Light Analogy, Theological Method, and the Doctrine of the Trinity

Posted on July 25, 2018 by robbowman

In 2010 I participated in a lengthy online written debate entitled “The Great Trinity Debate” with a Christadelphian named David Burke. I presented a defense of Trinitarianism and Burke defended Unitarianism (of the “Biblical Unitarian” variety). A few days after … Continue reading →

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Does the Book of Revelation Teach that Christ Is an Angel?

Posted on March 2, 2018 by robbowman

In the course of discussing other ancient texts about ascents into or visions of heaven in her 2006 monograph on 2 Corinthians 12, Paula Gooder makes the surprising claim that the Book of Revelation identifies Christ as “an exalted angel.” She offers two arguments in support of this claim. Continue reading →

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What’s in Your Christology? Comparing Trinitarian and Nontrinitarian Views of Jesus Christ

Posted on October 1, 2017 by robbowman

Jesus famously asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” (Mark 8:27). The answers people were considering at the time were generally variations on a single notion, which was that Jesus was some sort of prophetic figure. Today … Continue reading →

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