(Part 08) Exploring the Shema: Discussions on the Issues of Trinity

Historically, the Hebraists thought of God in concepts of “this” and “that,” i.e., he can be two simultaneously seemingly contradictory concepts at the same time (case in point: he cannot be and has never been seen according to John 1:18; 1 John 4:12, and yet Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and 70 of the elders of Isra'el saw him in Exodus chapter 24). God is both “this” (seen) and “that” (unseen) at the same time. Conversely, the historic Greek mindset from which Western thought also developed, approached God in concepts of “this” or “that,” i.e., he cannot be two simultaneously seemingly contradictory concepts at the same time (case in point: Yeshua cannot be God because God is an eternal being, while Yeshua was a finite human). The tension created by affirming two seemingly contradictory concepts at the same time (a paradox) is referred to by some scholars as “Hebrew tension.”

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