In his The Defense of an Essential: A Believer’s Handbook for Defending the Trinity, Nick Norelli took up the argument common among missionaries that echad (אֶחָד – the Hebrew word used in Deuteronomy 6:4 to say that HaShem is “one”) “is a word that allows for plurality within one and diversity within unity” (page 3). This is the most common argument when the subject of the Trinity comes up in the face of the declared unity of
27 August 2008
The Trinity and “Echad”
[A post I wrote for an old blog of mine.]
In his The Defense of an Essential: A Believer’s Handbook for Defending the Trinity, Nick Norelli took up the argument common among missionaries that echad (אֶחָד – the Hebrew word used in Deuteronomy 6:4 to say that HaShem is “one”) “is a word that allows for plurality within one and diversity within unity” (page 3). This is the most common argument when the subject of the Trinity comes up in the face of the declared unity ofG-d in the text of the Hebrew Bible.
In his The Defense of an Essential: A Believer’s Handbook for Defending the Trinity, Nick Norelli took up the argument common among missionaries that echad (אֶחָד – the Hebrew word used in Deuteronomy 6:4 to say that HaShem is “one”) “is a word that allows for plurality within one and diversity within unity” (page 3). This is the most common argument when the subject of the Trinity comes up in the face of the declared unity of
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