Where does the New Testament explicitly teach that the one God is an essence shared by three persons, rather than identifying the Father himself as the one God?
Why was Jesus killed?
Many Trinitarians say he was killed because he “claimed to be God”
The NT has a very different narrative:
“We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God”
IOW, he claimed to be messiah.
@andrew_deford Lie.
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Mark 13:32 explicitly distinguishes the Son from the Father by identifying the Father as the only knower of the day and hour. If the Son possesses the same numerically identical divine intellect as the Father, this distinction becomes impossible to explain.
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.
Mark 13:32 is a problem for any “Jesus is fully God“ apologist.
Jesus either lies, or gives up a divine attribute, or there has to be two persons in Jesus or omniscience has to be completely redefined.
Whatever direction you go, the theological cost is quite high.
If the doctrine of the Trinity was an established and universally understood apostolic teaching, we would reasonably expect to find some explicit apostolic articulation of its defining propositions, particularly given how frequently the apostles addressed other controversies.