So without further ado, for our opening statement in defense of conciliar Trinitarianism, please welcome

Dr. Joshua Sijuade.

Okay, thank you

very much, everyone.

So, conciliate Trinitarianism is the conjunction of all claims about the Trinity found in the authoritative conciliar sources, the creeds, definitions, canons, anathemas, and endorsed documents of the seven ecumenical councils.

The doctrine is this.

There is one God, the Father, and two relationally distinct divine persons, the Son and the Spirit, who are of the same divinity as the Father.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

So that would be yourself, that would be your family, that you have the opportunity to transform to moral exemplars, and thus fulfill a role, a very fundamental, um, and important role within society of grounding morality and spreading goodness around the world through your life as exemplars.

Um, but then secondly, um, this is sort of a new thing within the theodicy which I haven't seen others, um, put in, is that I believe that alsoGod is provided with the opportunity to transform to an exemplar.

And so what I mean by that is, is that God possesses, and it's something I spoke about, um, in a previous, um, Unbelievable episode, where God possesses something called omnisubjectivity, which is his cognitive grasp of all conscious agents, um, and their conscious experiences.

So God knows what it's like to be you, he knows what it's like to be me, and he knows what it's like to be you from a first-person perspective.

Normally, we see God's omniscience as his knowledge of all true propositions, and that's sort of a third-person knowledge.

It's a descriptive knowledge, not the experiential knowledge that I have of myself experiencing that specific thing.

And so an exemplar is an individual who grounds morality and spreads goodness around the world through their life.

And what was that? Was it an audible voice, or-

Yeah.

So it was, it was sort of a voice that was in my mind.

So it wasn't...

And I didn't, I wasn't, uh, sleeping.

I wasn't dreaming.

I hadn't taken any alcoholic beverage.

Final question: How did Jesus' death and resurrection deal with the problem of human sinfulness?

Okay

... okay, firstly, um-We have individuals that state very clearly.

So remember, just for the audience, the Trinity as it's correctly understood within a conciliar context is there's one God, the Father, and two relationally distinct divine persons who are of the same divinity as the Father.

Now, we have, um, Hermas stating, "Believe that God is one who created and established all things, bringing them into existence out of non-existence." So that is in the latter part of the first century going into the second century, wh- whichever way you t- um, you, um, date it.

We have Irenaeus in 180 to 190 writing, um, in Against Heresies, "Here is alone God, alone Lord, alone Creator, alone Father, and alone contains all things and bestows existence on him." We have him stating in further writings, "God the Father, increate, ungendered, invisible, one and only deity, creator of the universe." We have Theophilus of Antioch who states, "From nothing God created whatever he willed as he willed.

The power of God is manifested in this, that one out of these things there are not what he makes whatever he pleases." Tertullian says, "We believe," and this is in the third century, "We believe in only one God, yet subject to the dis- dispensation, which is our word for economy, that the one only God has also a Son, his Word, who's issued out of himself." Okay? Um, then we have, last person I'll say here, we have Gregory, um, of Thaumaturgus, who says, um, in his, in a creed that we have that survived, "There is one God, Father of the living Word, perfect begetter of the perfect begotten." And this was in 270.

Now, we then, so we have the one God being very clearly established, but then the question, so that's the first part of the, the Trinity.

Thank you

No.

Um, but just to sort of lay it out.

Um, so we have, uh, God doing, uh, um, exemplifying agapic love.

Now, the first type of love that God can exemplify is called self-love.

Now, we would think that as, as a perfect being, God will want to exemplify self-love, because it's good to love yourself.

Now, um, if we have these three aspects of agape, appreciation, benevolence, and union, the question then is, how can we have self-love? Because I can appreciate myself, I can be benevolent and good to myself, I can buy myself loads of gifts, but I can't really have union with myself, someone might say.

How can you be united? You're just one person.

Hmm.