Concerns from Trinitarians

For some Christians, questioning the Trinity feels dangerous rather than merely difficult. They fear dishonouring God, losing salvation, or making Jesus' death seem small.

The following concerns have a major impact on the Christian faith.

It influence how we understand salvation:

• Price of the sacrifice: Can one man's death save billions of people, or must the sacrifice be divine to be sufficient?
• Salvation: If believing in Jesus requires believing he is Almighty God, could denying that cost someone salvation?
• Known by Jesus: Jesus warns in Matthew 7:21–23 that he never knew some who called him Lord. If Jesus is human, how can believers communicate with him and be known by him across the world?

How we understand sin:

• Unforgivable sin: If someone calls the Holy Spirit a force instead of God, could that be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?
• Blasphemy: If Jesus is God, would saying he is human but not Almighty God insult him?
• Antichrist: Do we have the spirit of the antichrist if we deny the preexistance of Christ?
• Worship: If Jesus is God, could refusing him worship and honouring another lord become idolatry?

How we understand God's character:

• Eternal Love: If love requires an object to love. How can the loving God be loving before Creation?
• God's love for His son: Would it be cruel for the Father to send His Son to die rather than die Himself?
• Mediation: If Jesus is human, how can he mediate between the Father and billions of humans?

How we view fellow Christians:

• Fellowship: If Jesus remains a human person, how can he be close to believers across the world?
• Majority: If so many Christians have confessed Jesus as Almighty God for centuries, how could they all be mistaken? Why was this not resolved during the Reformation?

Benefits of a Human Christ

Believing that the Father is the only true God (John 17:3) and that Jesus is the human representative (Christ) that God sent and authorised offers these benefits:

• Understandable gospel: The apostles’ account of the Father and His Christ can be explained in Scripture’s own terms without explaining complex Trinitarian terms.
• Restoring humanity: Jesus restores humanity’s original purpose by fulfilling the calling that Adam failed to carry out.
• Human temptations: Jesus faces real human temptations and remains faithful through trust in the Father.
• Human obedience: Jesus’s human obedience gives disciples a meaningful example of trust in the Father to follow.
• God works through humans: The Father’s work through Jesus and other human agents gives believers hope that He can work through them too.
• The Father's love and glory: The Father gives the distinct Son He genuinely loves, making His gift personal and costly rather than an act of self-love.
• Human blood required: Jesus truly dies as a human saviour, giving his life as a ransom for humanity.
• More honour to Jesus: Jesus’s freely chosen obedience and real suffering make his sacrifice costly and worthy of honour.
• His resurrection is our hope: The Father’s power and promise give believers reason to expect resurrection for themselves.
• Humans in God’s family: Through Jesus, the Father adopts believers as His children and welcomes them into His family without making them divine.
• A human mediator and advocate: Jesus’s experience of human pressures and suffering makes him a fitting mediator and advocate before the Father.
• Jesus and the Father Are Two Witnesses: Jesus and the Father are not one witness repeated, and their testimony is consistent with Scripture’s legal standard for establishing a charge (Deuteronomy 19:15; John 8:17–18).
• God remains trustworthy and unchanged: The Father remains immortal, holy and unchanged, giving believers further reason to trust Him.

Questioning the divinity of Jesus does not mean giving less honour to Jesus.