Introduction  I want to be a brief as possible in this, and to do so requires that I be blunt: there are many believing Christians today, Christians who are children and beneficiaries of the Reformation that are utterly ignorant of its principles. Chief among these is the principle of Scripture Alone—often articulated as Sola Scriptura— who are ignorant of what it means in practice. James White, in his book Scripture Alone , in giving the reader a brief introduction to the history of the Reformation, introduces the principle thusly, …[The] formal principle of the Reformation was sola scriptura , for it was the assertion of biblical sufficiency over against tradition that allowed for the recovery of certain biblical doctrines: justification by grace through faith alone, the proper form and governance of the church, the individual priesthood of the believer, and much more.[1] Historically, we must recognize that the principle was grounded in establishing an authority for what ...

  Picking up from the prior section , we continue examining Dale Tuggy’s claims regarding his argument . Restating the Arguments At this point, it would probably serve us well to restate Tuggy’s argument, which is, 1.  God just is Yahweh. 2.  Yahweh just is the Father. 3.  God just is the Father. 4.  God just is the Trinity. 5.  It is not the case that the Trinity just is the Father. 6.  The Trinity just is the Father. It would also be suitable for me to restate my argument that I have created, based upon the biblical evidence that moves from Old Testament to New, avoiding the heretical pitfalls opened by Tuggy’s, which is, 1.  The God of the Old Testament is identified as Yahweh. 2.  The Father is identified as Yahweh. 3.  Therefore, the Father is Yahweh, the God identified in the Old Testament. 4.  The God of the New Testament is identified as Yahweh. 5.  The three Persons of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are identified...

  Continuing from the previous section , we come to what is Tuggy’s final jab at the doctrine of the Trinity, in the final section of his post . The Unitarian Tendency Towards Exhibitionism As has been noted throughout this series, Tuggy has a tendency to conflate matters, namely either through the flattening of distinct, biblical categories or simply ignoring them. This is seen most clearly in what he claims that Trinitarians have to deny in relation to his argument, It looks like the only way to save trinitarian hypotheses  (which are committed to 1, 4, and 5) is to deny 2 and/or 3. But notice that 3 follows from 1 & 2. And you don’t want to deny 1. So really, you have to attack 2 : you have to deny or at least cast doubt on the premise that the Yahweh of the OT just is the one called “Father” is the NT. (emphasis original) However, we’ve already argued that Father, Son, and Spirit, are all identified as Yahweh in the New Testament. Moreover, it has been demonstrated tha...