From 7e506d33afaeacea43b63a129c392c602c6ef22f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Camil Staps
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 23:54:42 +0200
Subject: Chap. 5, Trinity & errata

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     Considering the \emph{final} salvation and Kingdom, Jesus clearly shows this is given by Him (Lk.~22:39-40; 12:8-9).
 
     \subsubsection*{The Trinity revealed?}
-    To be done. %todo
+    We don't find direct references to the doctrine of the Trinity in the Gospels; that would be wildly anachronistic.
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+    The baptism of Jesus in Mark is the first hint at the trinity. The story (1) reveals the identity of Jesus, (2) tells of His consecration for His mission, (3) introduces His public activity and (4) indicated the form that activity would take (witnessing to the Father and empowered by the Spirit). Matthew and Luke add to Mark that Jesus will baptise with the Holy Spirit \emph{and with fire}, which may refer to the Last Judgment (Mt.) or Pentecost (Lk.).
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+    For sure Jesus was conscious of God being a Father, but it cannot be said when and how he came to realise that. He was to a lesser extent aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit, and doesn't refer to it as directly as to the Father with ``Abba''. Also the accounts of Jesus' baptism hint at a Father figure.
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+    It can be argued that Jesus was somehow aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit, but not directly in a different way than Old Testament prophets.
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+    The sonship is more explicitly referred to than the Holy Spirit, in Mt.~11:25-30 = Lk.~10:22 (``all things have been delivered to Me by My Father and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him''). Three times, the synoptic Gospels have Jesus refer to others being sons of God. That is much less use than in the Old Testament, where in several books several different groups are called sons of God. The New Testament uses less `sons of God', more `Son of God' and more 'Father' than the Old Testament.
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+    In Jesus' authority we can see him acting as a Son and talking as a Son.
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+    Of course, the revelation of the Son implies the revelation of the Father.
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+    To summarise: we have to be careful to not be anachronistic and put too much Trinity in the Gospels, but we may say that Jesus lived out in a human way His filial relationship and mission as One sent/coming from the Father and acting in the power of the Holy Spirit.
 
     \subsubsection*{Revelation past, present and future}
     To be done. %todo
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