October 14, 2020 Show with Vern Poythress on “The Mystery of the Trinity”

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I'm so thrilled to have, for the very first time ever on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, somebody that I've been wanting to interview for quite a long time, and finally this has come to fruition. I am speaking of Dr. Vern Poitras, Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, author of a number of books, and today we're going to be discussing one of them, The Mystery of the Trinity, The Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God.

It's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. Vern Poitras.

Thank you very much for inviting me.

Oh, it's my pleasure, brother. Before we go into something that is a tradition here, when we have a first-time guest on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, we normally have that guest give a summary of their salvation testimony, what kind of religious atmosphere they were raised in, if any, and what kind of providential circumstances our Sovereign Lord raised up in their lives that drew them to himself.

And we will have you do that, but first, tell us about Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for those of our listeners who may be unaware of that fine institution, although I'm sure the vast majority already are, but we have new listeners in our audience very often, and new Christians, I should say, and we also even have those that are not Christian at all, Muslims and atheists and others.

So why don't you tell our listeners about Westminster Theological Seminary?

Okay, we're 29.

Well, praise God. If anybody wants to find out more information about Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, go to wts .edu, wts .edu. And now, as I mentioned before, just moments ago, we would like you to fulfill our tradition today that we have, where our first-time guests give a summary of their salvation testimony.

I made it. I was nine years old at a church camp.

Wow.

It was a real blessing. I grew up.

Praise God. And how did the thought come into your head, or what providential circumstances rose up around you that led you to the conviction, I am going to pursue being a professor or a teacher?

I see.

Great. Well, now we have the opportunity to delve into this new book, The Mystery of the Trinity, The Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God. Well, perhaps if you could, it might be a wise place for you to start by giving us, as briefly as you possibly can, with a subject so deep and so vast and mysterious, as the title hints at, tell us, in summary form, who is the Trinity?

Yes, and I have been told by Christian apologists, and one in particular, actually, my friend for many years, Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries, who's a Reformed Baptist apologist, and author of the book, The Forgotten Trinity, he has told me, and others have said this, that very often they have been dismayed when having conversations with Christians, sometimes Christians who have been Christians for decades, and when the subject of the Trinity comes up, they may provide, unfortunately, a modalist definition of what that is.

Have you found that in your own experience, that people don't really seem to have a grasp on the separateness of the persons, and yet the fact that they are in one Godhead, they are all one God, and yet three, not only separate, but co-equal and co-eternal persons?

Comet it is. And it's partly because less than some professors,. Oh, that's a good thing that you don't have.

That same kind of problem that you've encountered, but I guess it still exists, nonetheless. And this is a subject matter that has even evoked differences of opinion in the body of Christ on how much someone has to understand and believe in this concept in order to be rightly called a brother and sister in Christ.

Is this what you would consider a vital core teaching of the church that is really inseparable from biblical orthodoxy? If we find out that somebody that we have identified as a Christian, who identifies themselves as a Christian, has some things really mixed up about this doctrine, should we still embrace them as a brother or sister?

How do you handle that situation?

Right. It's an excellent question. In there, it doesn't mean you have to, I would like to say, we're saved by faith in Christ, not by knowledge of doctrine.

Yes.

Because we embrace and love. I think you're right. We'll give you some literature to help you understand better. We'll pray for you concerning God. Say, well, you may, you said it wrong. So there's kinds of people, this as well as you should say, who are actively seeking perverse things.

Leaders of the church who are teaching.

Great. And by the way, I'm so thankful to have you confirm that confused people can still go to heaven because I am very often one of the most confused people I know. So that's very reassuring.

As I said, it's not all orthodoxy as such.

Amen. And of course, judging from what you have already just said, one cannot run with that in order to welcome everyone into the church who happens to be, especially if they are knowledgeable people who are actively trying to tear down the church with their false teachings or false practices.

And those can be all kinds of things, whether they be cultic or leftist or what have you. They are unfortunately multiplying very rapidly in the church today. And it is certainly obviously not only a glorious time to see the gospel continue to spread and to see souls saved all over the globe, but it's also obviously heart-wrenching to see people that you once knew and loved or thought you did, or at least people that you once valued in the literary world or as a preacher or teacher who later comes out of the closet, as it were, with a really serious heresy.

So we have to keep that balance of not being too harsh towards those who are truly among the elect for whom Christ died. And we have to also be very leery and on the watch for wolves in sheep's clothing entering into the flock or rising up from the flock.

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Let's see here. We have B .B. in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, who wants to know, how is this book, The Mystery of the Trinity, different from your other book, Knowing and the Trinity, How Perspectives in Human Knowledge Imitate the Trinity?

I know that there's another book.

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Thank you for your excellent question. I have another question that I will read to you, and then I will have you answer it when we return from our first break. We have a listener. I will give her full name because she happens to be somebody I've interviewed many times myself on this program.

She's a former Mormon who, by the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ, converted to historic, biblical, orthodox Christianity, and her name is Dr. Lataine C. Scott, an author in her own right, an author of the Mormon Mirage and many other wonderful books.

And Lataine C. Scott's question is, I've been reading Dr. Poythress's book, In the Beginning Was the Word, Language, a God-Centered Approach, and loving it. He compares God to a novelist who commissions the characters in his novel to act creatively while within the parameters of the personalities the writer has assigned to each character.

But the author ultimately controls the actions of the characters in the same way that God the Father commissions the Son to make choices, act creatively, but in ways that harmonize with God the Father's plan.

Could Dr. Poythress please give an example of how Jesus made choices or acted creatively? And we'll have you answer that when we come back from our first break. If anybody else wants to join us on the air with a question of your own, our email address again is chrisarnson at gmail .com.

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The Trinity and the Mystery of Divine Attributes

Welcome back. This is Chris Armisen, the host of Iron Trumpet Zion Radio. If you just tuned us in, our guest today for the full program is Dr. Vern Poythress. We are discussing his book, The Mystery of the Trinity.

Before I return to a question that was asked of Dr. Poythress by Dr. Latane C. Scott of Albuquerque, New Mexico, I just wanted to read a couple of endorsements for this book by some very impressive folks that I have interviewed on this program.

One is Dr. D .A. Carson, Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dr. Carson says, This book is a valiant and thought-provoking attempt to approach the attributes of God through the doctrine of the Trinity.

While broadly endorsing the classical doctrine of God, Poythress is suspicious of our reliance on well-defined technical terms and that are required to do our work for us. He wants us to abandon our implicit reliance on Aristotelian metaphysics in favor of the sharpening power of the mystery of the Trinity.

In the hands of Poythress, this becomes an appeal to become more robustly biblical, not less. This book is truly transforming a capstone to all that Poythress has taught us over the last two or three decades.

Read it slowly and carefully. We also have another individual, a very prominent individual, who has been a guest on this program, Dr. Philip Graham Rykin, President at Wheaton College. Dr. Poythress applies his deep knowledge of scripture, his well-informed knowledge of historical theology, and his brilliant mind to some of the most difficult controversies in the theology of the divine attributes.

And there are many more commendations for this book as well. As I was saying before, before the break, Dr. Latane C. Scott of Albuquerque, New Mexico, said, I've been reading Dr. Poythress's book. In the beginning was the word language, a God-centered approach, and loving it.

He compares God to a novelist who commissions the characters in his novel to act creatively while within the parameters of the personalities the writer has assigned to each character. But the author ultimately controls the actions of the characters in the same way that God the Father commissions the Son to make choices, act creatively, but in ways that harmonize with God the Father's plan.

Could Dr. Poythress please give an example of how Jesus made choices or acted creatively?

On to this action, and I think what I have in mind a marvelous does it by speaking the eternal speaking that's mentioned in Jehovah's Revival and there was life. Creativity, he didn't have to make anything at all.

To make a world, there's lots of creativity in exactly what kind of world he's going to make. And he exercises that creativity and expresses, hey, you know, what a marvelous God is who's made chipmunk the Son, particularly with that creativity of God, because he decided.

Well, thank you, Dr. Latane C. Scott. Make sure that we have your mailing address in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so that Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service, CVBBS, can ship that copy of The Mystery of the Trinity out to you, since you have won a copy by virtue of your submitting a question today.

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And by the way, I would appreciate our listeners praying for Dr. Latane C. Scott, who happens to be not only a longtime friend, but a frequently interviewed guest on this program. She just lost, after I believe it was over 40 years of marriage, her husband, Dan, went home to be with the Lord after a very long, debilitating illness.

And of course, there's much reason for rejoicing, knowing that he was indeed a Christian and is certainly with the Savior, whom he loved to proclaim all these years. And no longer feeling the horrible effects of illness, but at the same time, obviously, after such a long marriage, especially Dr. Scott, is no doubt still in the grieving process.

So please pray for her and her family. And in fact, they do have adult children as well. So pray for them as well, that the Lord gives them the peace that surpasses all understanding. Well, we have David in Sumner, Washington.

Did the Holy Spirit indwell the Old Testament saints or did he only come upon them? Are you there, Dr. Poythress?

I am. Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, the church in the new with his indwelling, a fundamental concept.

Well, thank you, David. And please make sure we have your full mailing address in Sumner, Washington, so that we can have cvbbs .com, Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service, ship your free copy of The Mystery of the Trinity out to you.

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