TrinJ 20:1 (Spring 1999) p. 52 yet most of us would balk at questioning the validity of their conversion on this basis. Most importantly, the specific relation between the Father and the Son was not integral to the apostolic preaching of the gospel necessary for conversion in the NT, provided that people embraced Jesus as Lord (which implies his deity). (Some other points disputed in some evangelical circles today, such as the necessity of personal faith in Jesus for being reconciled to God, do