Ethan Smith's Resources in Defense of the Trinity

Ethan Smith is another lesser known Trinitarian apologist that I would like to recommend. If I recall, Ethan is half Filipino. If so, it's refreshing to find a fellow Filipino who also takes seriously the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity. Ethan Smith's videos on YouTube are insightful and have special relevance in addressing anti-Trinitarian arguments that are used by various sects in 3rd world countries like the Philippines. For example, the Filipino sect Iglesia Ni Cristo.

Smith's YouTube channel is named Trinity Apologetics

See Trinity Apologetics' playlist here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/ETHANGELIST/playlists

The channel's playlist includes topics like:

Against Unitarian & Arian doctrine

Against Iglesia Ni Cristo

Against Oneness/Modalism

Against Islam

Two Lesser Known Apologists for Trinitarianism Interacting

The following video has Andrew Schumacher interviewing Ethan Smith. I've already recommended Andrew's materials in a previous post. Now I'd like to recommend Ethan Smith's. His YouTube channel is Trinity Apologetics.

Interview: Debating about the Trinity

https://youtu.be/jsujI1U6wC0

THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND JESUS CHRIST: A Biblical and Theological Appraisal By Bruce M. Metzger

The following is a classic article by renowned scholar Bruce Metzger. It was written 1953 and therefore not all of its criticism of the New World Translation applies to modern editions and revisions of the NWT.

THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND JESUS CHRIST: A Biblical and Theological Appraisal 

By Bruce M. Metzger

Dale Tuggy and the Biblical Basis of the Trinity by Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Robert M. Bowman Jr. is well known for being one of the best defenders of the doctrine of the Trinity among Evangelicals. Here are links to his articles where he deals with Unitarian Dale Tuggy's criticism of his defense of the doctrine.


Dale Tuggy and the Biblical Basis of the Trinity, Part 1: Are Essential Elements Missing?


Dale Tuggy and the Biblical Basis of the Trinity, Part 2: Is the Doctrine of the Trinity Incoherent?

The "Word of the Lord" in the Targums

Here's an interesting webpage I found that documents some of the places in the Targums where the "Word of the Lord" is either personified or is a stand in for YHVH. Showing again how the concept of a plurality of persons in God (the "Two Powers in Heaven" concept) was already floating around and in the radar screens of some Jews before the Christian era. From which the author of GJohn in all likelihood was alluding to and amplifying in chapter 1.

http://juchre.org/articles/word.htm

This was to explain and safeguard both the transcendence of YHVH on the one hand, and at the same time the immanence of YHVH on the other hand. A seemingly paradoxical reality of OT statements and theology. In the Christian concept of the Trinity it all makes sense and provides a satisfactory resolution to the seemingly contradictory data we find in the OT (e.g. two YHVHs in Gen. 19:24; or the three agents in Isa. 63 with YHVH, the Angel of YHVH and the Spirit of YHVH).