Trinity, Episode 3: Trinity in Je...
Trinity, Episode 3: Trinity in Jewish Scripture
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Theophilus Podcast by D. Gene Williams Jr., PhD
S4 · E3
Sep 27, 2026
25:41
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Is a Triune God Foreign to the Hebrew Bible?

Is the Trinity a later Christian invention, or does Jewish Scripture already contain categories that make a triune understanding of God possible?

In this teaching, we examine the Hebrew Bible and Jewish interpretive traditions to ask whether the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is fundamentally foreign to Jewish monotheism.

We begin with the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4 and an important distinction. Scripture clearly teaches that there is one God, but the confession that God is one does not by itself answer every question concerning personal distinction within the divine identity.

From there, we examine the mysterious Angel of the LORD in Genesis and Exodus, particularly the burning bush account where the Angel of the LORD appears while the speaker identifies Himself as the God of  ... 

Keywords
Christian Theology, Apologetics, Biblical Studies, Theophilus, Defend the Word