Final

Question 1

What two things does “Father/Son” language in the NT show?

Answer 1

What God did as humanity and diety

Question 2

How did God make the world by the Son?

Answer 2

With Him in mind/view

Question 3

Prove Jesus is not having a conversation with another person in the trinity on the cross

Answer 3

Quoting Psalms 22

Question 4

What is Jesus saying will happen through His suffering?

Answer 4

He will reign

Question 5

What are the two major questions you ask almost all “passages of distinction” that prove the distinction is about the human/divine relationship not persons in the trinity?

Answer 5

Is this coequal?

Where is the Holy Ghost?

Question 6

Prove that Jesus’ prayers cannot be about a trinity explaining why the essence of the doctrine of the trinity would be violated?

Answer 6

He wouldn’t be coequal

Question 7

What is the key characteristic of God’s nature that helps us understand the baptism of Christ has nothing to do with a trinity?

Answer 7

Omnipresent

Question 8

What are the words of Jesus Himself that answer why He was baptized?

Answer 8

To fulfill all righteousness of the law

Question 9

Who learned who Jesus was at HIs baptism?

Answer 9

John and Israel learned who Jesus was

Question 10

According to the Bible who was the dove a sign for?

Answer 10

John

Question 11

The dove descending represented what symbolically?

Answer 11

The fulfillmemt of the annointing of the man Jesus

Question 12

What three roles did Jesus come to fulfill in His ministry?

Answer 12

Priest, Prophet, and King

Question 13

Who was washed at the entrance of their office in the OT (Ex. 29:4)?

Answer 13

High Priest

Question 14

2 Cor. 3:17

Answer 14

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lordis, thereisliberty.

Question 15

Who was anointed with oil at the beginning of their role, ministry, or office in Old Testament?

Answer 15

Priest, King and Prophet

Question 16

Of whom does the OT prophecy would be similarly anointed?

Answer 16

Jesus

Question 17

The Hebrew word “Messiah” and the Greek word “Christ” both mean which of the following?

Answer 17

Annointed one

Question 18

How old was the minimum age of entrance into the priesthood (Num. 4:3, 23-30)?

Answer 18

30

Question 19

How old was Jesus at His baptism?

Answer 19

Around 30

Question 20

What was Jesus being baptized into according to major trinitarian scholars like McGrath, Kostenberger, Kellum, and Blomberg?

Answer 20

Priesthood

Question 21

Who was the voice a sign for at Jesus’ baptism according to Scripture?

Answer 21

Israel (the people)

Question 22

What is the significance of the term “beloved son” when applied to Jesus at His baptism?

Answer 22

Coronation of a King

Question 23

When the voice from heaven says “This is my beloved son” what is it quoting?

Answer 23

Psalms 2

Question 24

Where does the phrase “in whom I am well pleased” come from?

Answer 24

Isaiah 42 (role of suffering servant)

Question 25

What does the total phrase my beloved son in whom I am well pleased show?

Answer 25

As a man Jesus will suffer and die becoming King and ruling through his suffering.

Question 26

Why did God use the voice to announce Himself as man?

Answer 26

Couldn't make of himself a reputation according to Philipians 2

Question 27

What two OT images are represented in Phil. 2:5-11?

Answer 27

Adam and suffering servant

Question 28

What role did Jesus have to fulfill to save us?

Answer 28

Suffering Servant

Question 29

How does Phil. 2:5-11 show the language of exaltation is about the man Jesus and refutes the doctrine of co-equality?

Answer 29

Shows language of coequality

Question 30

What two witnesses does Jesus say testify of the truthfulness of His ministry?

Answer 30

Perfect man and Spirit of God

Question 31

What is the best way to reach a trinitarian

Answer 31

Show Jesus and Farher and Spirit are one

Question 32

List scripture to explain whether Jesus is in the godhead or is the godhead in Jesus?

Answer 32

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9

Question 33

How does the “trinitarian shield” help us in witnessing by moving us to a more specific starting point of conversation?

Answer 33

You can focus on each section. Show how Jesus is God then Jesus is Spirit then God is Spirit

Question 34

Refute using Scripture the trinitarian claim “The Son is not the Father incarnate.”

Answer 34

Isaiah 9:6, John 10:30, John 14:8-11, 1 John 2:22

Question 35

Refute using Scripture the trinitarian claim, “The Father is not the Holy Spirit.”

Answer 35

Ephesians 4:4

Question 36

Refute using Scripture the trinitarian claim, “The Father is not the Holy Spirit.”

Answer 36

Ephesians 4:4

Question 37

When did the trinity become fully developed in history?

Answer 37

381 A.D. Council of Constantinople

Question 38

What two things does the development of the trinity prove about the doctrine?

Answer 38

Not found in the New Testament, developed by man

Question 39

How did Jesus pray according to Scripture (Heb. 5:7)?

Answer 39

Prayed in the flesh/humanity

Question 40

Can god pray to god and yet still remain god in trinitarian thought?

Answer 40

No- doctrine of coequality

Question 41

What basic idea of the trinity would it violate if Jesus prayed as anything but man?

Answer 41

Doctrine of Coequality

Question 42

What submitted to the Father in the garden of Gethsemane?

Answer 42

Human will to the divine will

Question 43

How did the son exist before creation?

Answer 43

In the mind of God

Question 44

When Jesus prays “Father glorify me with the glory that I had with you before the world was...” what glory is Jesus speaking of and how do you know?

Answer 44

Glory as the role of man, can only pray as man

Question 45

According to the Bible how was the Son sent (Gal. 4:4)?

Answer 45

Made of a woman

Question 46

How do you know the Bible’s use of “sent” or “sent from heaven” does not mean sent as an eternal person from heaven, but only commissioned or sent as an agent of heaven?

Answer 46

John was sent from Heaven too

Question 47

What is the major flaw of arguing for the trinity based on the idea that God could not be a god of love and show the capacity of relationship before He created unless He existed as a trinity?

Answer 47

Its a philosophical argument not biblical

Question 48

Could God have loved us before we were ever created?

Answer 48

Yes

Question 49

Is there one Scripture in the entire Bible that says the Spirit loves the Father, or the Father loves the Spirit?

Answer 49

No

Question 50

What does the above prove regarding love between the Father and Son?

Answer 50

Spirit doesn't love the Father

Question 51

Jn 5:19 says, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. What does this point to?

Answer 51

Shows the 2 natures because it is not coequal

Question 52

What were the two witness Jesus pointed out that testified of His ministry?

Answer 52

Humanity and Diety

Question 53

How many witnesses did the OT call for and why is this significant in disproving the trinity?

Answer 53

It called for 2 it didn't need 3

Question 54

The following verses show plural usage referring to the Father and Jesus, how do we know it’s not proving a trinity? ”If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also" (Jn 8:19); "The Father hath not left me alone (Jn 8:29); "He that hateth me hateth my Father also" (Jn 15:23); "Now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father" (Jn 15:24); and "I am not alone, because the Father is with me" (Jn 16:32).

Answer 54

The Holy Ghost is missing

Question 55

2 Jn 9 states, "He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son." What is the doctrine of Christ and how do you know this is not about a trinity?

Answer 55

Jesus is the Messiah and it says you have both in this doctrine

Question 56

Jn 17:21-22 says, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me & I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. & the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.” What does this verse show?

Answer 56

Reconciliation comes through Jesus

Question 57

How do we know Jn. 14:23 is not about a trinity?

Answer 57

It isn't about bodily entrance

Question 58

What does the Bible show when it says there is “...one mediator between men & God, the man Christ Jesus.” (I Tim 2:5)?

Answer 58

We can't approach a Holy God on our own

Question 59

When Jesus says no one comes “...to the Father but by me.” (Jesus - Jn 14:6) what is He showing?

Answer 59

Doctrine of essentiality, only by Jesus are we saved

Question 60

According to Scripture who do we receive when we receive Christ (2 Jn 9)?

Answer 60

Father and Son

Question 61

What is 2 Jn 9 not about?

Answer 61

Trinity

Question 62

2 Cor 5:19 says,”To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself” not whom?

Answer 62

Themselves

Question 63

When Scripture makes a distinction about the Father and Son what distinction is it making?

Answer 63

Roles, modes, offices, natures

Question 64

Can you argue that the “right hand of God” is a literal place from Scripture?

Answer 64

No

Question 65

What is the “Right hand of God” if it is clearly not physical?

Answer 65

Figurative right hand- power (right hand man)

Question 66

Who did David say was always at his right hand?

Answer 66

The Lord

Question 67

Who does Ps. 109:31 say the LORD is always by on their right hand?

Answer 67

The poor

Question 68

What does Bernard Ramm a trinitarian scholar admit about the phrase “right hand of God”?

Answer 68

Not literal

Question 69

What did Stephen see in Acts 7?

Answer 69

glory of God

Question 70

Who did Stephen pray to when Scripture says he “called on God”?

Answer 70

Jesus

Question 71

When looking at 2 Cor 13:14 which says, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, & the love of God, & the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." what is important to remember

Answer 71

Trinity was not invented yet and this is referring to the 3 aspects/modes in redemption

Question 72

When 2 Cor. 13:14 says, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ...” what does this point to?

Answer 72

Jesus is the only source of grace

Question 73

When 2 Cor. 13:14 says, “...and the love of God...” what does this show?

Answer 73

God loved us enough to become the plan

Question 74

When 2 Cor. 13:14 says, “...and the communion of the Holy Ghost...” what does this show?

Answer 74

The baptism of the Holy Ghost is essential

Question 75

Why are there confusing verses in the Bible?

Answer 75

Only confusing after invention of the trinity

Question 76

Why is it hard for some to see the Oneness of God if it is so plain in Scripture?

Answer 76

God presents the gospel in hidden ways so that only those hungry enough to find the answer will find it.

Question 77

The Council of Constantinople

Answer 77

381 AD

Question 78

Post-Apostolic Age

Answer 78

90-140 AD

Question 79

Greek Apologists

Answer 79

130-180 AD

Question 80

Old Catholic Age

Answer 80

170-325 AD

Question 81

The Council of Nicea

Answer 81

325 AD

Question 82

Passages of Distinction

Answer 82

John 5:19, John 5:30

Question 83

Passages of Identity

Answer 83

Deutoronomy 6:4, Isaiah 9:6

Question 84

1 Timothy 2:5

Answer 84

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Question 85

James 2:19

Answer 85

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Question 86

John 20:28

Answer 86

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.