Matt Frost has responded to my post on the Negotiability of the Trinity. His post is entitled: Oh goodie: The Evangelicals talk about the doctrine of God. This whole discussion was instigated by Marc Cortez, here. And then Brian LePort furthered the discussion by noting others who had joined in, and by asking some questions himself here. I was provoked by Brian’s post to respond by posting a post of my own here; primarily because of the comments that ensued at Brian’s blog (most of which seem incoherent, confused, and arguments from the emotive).

Anyway, I think Matt does an admirable job of highlighting and itemizing the issues over at his blog; so check it out!

My primary concern on this issue is theological; not sociological. Meaning, if as Athanasius has said; it is better to “signify God from the Son and call him Father, than to name God from his works alone and call him Unoriginate”, then the person and work of the Son (Jesus) are inextricably linked. Thus to proclaim the Gospel is to proclaim the life of God in Christ for us; if not, then we have decoupled the work of Jesus from his person, and thus relinquished the core truth of the Gospel — again, the life of God, who is eternal life (according the Gospel of John and his Epistles).

I see many thoughtful Christians not being so thoughtful nowadays. It appears that many well meaning folk want to bypass the necessary rigor required for thinking theologically or Dogmatically. In fact the words ‘theological’ and ‘Dogmatic’ have become something of cuss words for these people (and these people don’t like to cuss!). And so, this particular trajectory is doomed to repeat the errors of  yesteryears heretics, and the thread over at Brian’s helps to illustrate this.