FrankForum (Frankness IS Forum)

This is often a question that unitarians have to deal with (and subsequently anyone who is interested in salvation). My stance is that believing the trinity is NOT required for salvation:
#1 as a "born again" believer, you're a figurative baby, so a baby can't know a lot of doctrine
#2 salvation passages don't claim you need to know the doctrine of the trinity (except believing that Christ paid for your sins)*
*and this is where the 'grey area' occurs, does believing whether or not Christ is God change whether or not you believe *Christ* paid for your sins. Well, I think it doesn't because a 'baby' might not have yet learned that only *God* can pay sins. So the still believing Christ paid for your sins is valid. Not to mention many Christians who are trinitiarian still get the trinity wrong or don't understand it when confronted. Nonetheless it is playing with fire to say Christ is not God. And being a unitarian for too long will prevent you from growing spiritually, and you'll remain a spiritual baby, never growing like someone who believes in works salvation.

While I appreciate the reflection on the subject - especially the point that you NEVER see a specific doctrinal statement required for belief in the salvation events in Acts (other than some vague - "Believing on Jesus"), the notion that trinitarians are growing spiritually and unitarians are not is simply silly - and contrary to all facts.

I did not know about the Trinity until well after I was saved. Understanding the Trinity is an impossible requirement for salvation, because an infant has no vocabulary that is needed to reason with.

The Trinity is not required for salvation. But, it will become required as one matures spiritually. The inability to grasp the Trinity is a sign that the person has failed to keep maturing spiritually. Its become a required testing after salvation. I found that those who reject the Trinity suffer from areas of ineptitude when it comes to understanding God's Word in many areas. They make themselves like a fish out of water (out of God's Grace) mentally when it comes to rightly handling the Word of God.

Other than Catholics who simply learn to parrot back what they are told to think about the Trinity? Failing to grasp the Trinity is a serious indicator that the Holy Spirit has no grasp on that believer's life.






selah -!