podcast 397 – Debunking Wes Huff’s Viral Trinity Moment with Michael Temperato
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</figure>A befuddled student asked apologist Wes Huff about how to make sense of the Trinity. Huff’s answer has gone viral (also here and here).
Obviously, Christians are enjoying and sharing Huff’s answer. But how helpful of an answer is it? Is this an answer that is going to help a thinking Christian love God with all her mind? Does it point her to the relevant biblical teachings?
Unfortunately, as Michael and I explain, for a number of reasons Huff’s answer is not helpful to the informed, Scripture-loving truth-seeker.
Just after the 48 minutes mark (52 minutes in the video below) I challenge Wes Huff to a debate on whether the one God in the New Testament or the Father alone. For these reasons, he probably will not debate me. But the Christian public who relies on Huff’s Trinity “answers” needs some better information, and to hear the unitarian Christian side of the case. If he does decide to accept the challenge, here is my recently updated starter pack for understanding my views.
As we recorded this video, I thought that perhaps it’s unfair to critique Huff’s Trinity thoughts based on an off-the-cuff answer. So in the next two episodes I’m going to interact with two other videos where he states his views at length and fully rehearsed. Perhaps those will fare better?
Here’s the video version:
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https://www.youtube.com/live/6Ipw3TUSVyE?si=X81aJZpvMt36OmMh
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Links for this episode:
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</figure>Michael Temperato’s YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram
Tuggy, What is the Trinity?
Stanford Encyclopedia, “Trinity”
What Would It Take To Convert You Back To Trinitarianism? ?
R. T. Mullins’s interview of William Lane Craig on his own Trinity theory
Gaston, Dynamic Monarchianism: The Earliest Christology?
Unitarian Christian Alliance Youtube channel
Unitarian Christian Alliance – Conference near Sydney, Australia, March 2026
podcast 137 – Daniel Whitby’s “Mystery and Revelation Inconsistent”
The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel – Dale Tuggy, Benjamin D. Sommer
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</figure>on Gregory of Nyssa’s On Not Three Gods
podcast 302 – The Stages of Trinitarian Commitment
podcast 262 – The Trinity before Nicaea?
podcast 249 – Tuggy vs. Brown debate – The God of the Bible is the Father alone
McIntosh, ed. One God, Three Persons, Four Views
podcast 388 – Yes, “the Trinity” is a Problem – Part 2
podcast 387 – Yes, “the Trinity” is a Problem – Part 1
Why I’m Not a Buddhist – Dr. Dale Tuggy
podcast 76 – Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Part 3
podcast 75 – Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Part 2
podcast 74 – Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Part 1
This week’s thinking music is “Going Rogue” by Grumplefunk.
Other videos in this UCA series:
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https://www.youtube.com/live/d0nXXVtuU3c?si=gCfoT5pqfw_3_pR9
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https://www.youtube.com/live/1lkBSlYRa3E?si=WpCjMtSPndZE4gqm
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