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Monday, 21 October 2024

Possibly an early indication of Trinity thinking in the New Testament

 I can only find one example in scripture of grouping the Father and the Son together in a way that, through parallelism, equates having both with having God, though they are not explicitly called 'God' or 'Divinity' collectively. 2 John v9 “Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.” It, in the words of ChatGPT, ‘contains elements that align with Trinitarian thinking, particularly in how the Father and Son are presented in relation to "having God," but it stops short of fully expressing the doctrine. It could be viewed as part of the scriptural foundation upon which the doctrine of the Trinity was later built.’