Here are some more of the many intriguing queries I have recently received from inquiring minds inside the heads of Blog readers!
QUESTION:
On Friday evening, I was at Wheaton College for a presentation by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (famous Muslim apostate and public intellectual) and Darrel Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary.
He quoted a verse, Matthew 28:19, “baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
I thought of you because I thought I learned on this blog that the only reference to the trinity in the NT was in one of the John epistles. Is this usage here not sufficiently trinitarian to scholars?
RESPONSE:
Ah, right. Matthew 28:19 certainly does name the Father, Son, and Spirit, but that’s not the doctrine of the Trinity. The doctrine is not that the three exist; it is about how they specifically relate to each other. The orthodox view that developed by the end of the fourth century consists of several affirmations:
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