At the end of the gospel according to Matthew, Jesus is portrayed as saying,

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:18b-20, NRSV)

Does the author here imply, presuppose, or hint that the one God is tripersonal? Or are some but not all elements of creedal trinitarian claims to be found here? Or is there no support here for the claim that there is one God “in three Persons”?

In this episode I discuss this and two other triadic New Testament passages with evangelical apologist Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr., the author of “Triadic New Testament Passages and the Doctrine of the Trinity” in the journal pictured here. Next week, he and I discuss a number of other such triadic passages – though far short of the more than eighty which he lists in his article.

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