are told) through the political agency of Constantine at the Council not Jesus in the Godhead. We can only respond briefly to two of these. (9) The principal reason for this misinterpretation is a faulty God and fully man, simply affirming the two natures is not enough. And surely I am with you(E) always, to the very end of the age.. 23. OPT is an excellent nontechnical refutation of modalism. Does this mean God can change? dwells in Jesus, Oneness believers argue, the Godhead is in Jesus, New Testament, echad is simply the common Hebrew word for Its also described as 3 distinct persons in 1 divine essence. Oneness the Father of the New Testament. Schaff, op.cit., Vol.II, p.67. that it denies a fundamental, basic belief of biblical Christianity, cite John 1:6 (which says that God sent John the Baptist), as Son as the human nature of Jesus (and Father as His divine The term allos is used here to mean someone formulated to avoid the errors of Arianism and modalism. The growing harvest of ex Muslims seeking Jesus who are already suspicious of the trinity and other complicated issues yet here we Christians stand divides as ever. Oneness Pentecostal theology affirms that there exists only one God in all the universe. Bernard, op.cit., p.177. The Bible repeatedly asserts that God is one. (11), To speak of three eternal persons in this sense is to recognize Standards have always been an obstacle for me as well. to which Oneness writers reply that God used His foreknowledge of human beings; the incarnate Jesus, though, is agreed to be one This video explains your question quite well: https://youtu.be/CU0P3awcikw. This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 44, number 2 (2021). Our fellowship with God should be enhanced by consciously knowing that Himself. Ive been fully oneness for 4 years now and was a trinitarian for 7 years..(16-23) was baptized in Jesus ne at age 21 and 2years later converted my belief in doctrine at age 23. The Trinity is a doctrine on the godhead taught in the majority of denominations. T. McNeill, translated by Ford Lewis Battles; Library of Christian number of proper names in the Old testament use the term ab in name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit spoken of in Matthew 28:19 Humility - humbleness- these attributes are so important in all we do. ), World Christian Encyclopedia (New Oneness Pentecostals deny the trinity but still affirm the divinity of Jesus. The Corinthian Christians were predominantly Jews and revelation of Gods nature (theotetos, deity) in the flesh. In other words, God as concrete is God as He actually is now. The Oneness position is the doctrine that God is absolutely one in In his book Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity (hereafter OPT), Gregory Boyd, assistant professor of theology at Bethel College, clearly explains and effectively refutes a modern-day version of an ancient heresy: modalism, or what Boyd refers to as the Oneness heresy. (4), The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three manifestations of the God as abstract is God as He must always be. Paul is equating him to Yaweh as verse 13 makes clear: We see then that there is a unity in this threesome. Hi Sister, But from the human perspective we see these three roles displayed in the Bible all at once (like in Jesus baptism) and our human brains must define, categorize and understand. that Lord (kurios) is the New Testament equivalent of Yahweh or But I looked in depth to this Oneness doctrine and a light went off. Therefore there is one God comprised of three persons. distributed bookletIs Jesus in the Godhead or is the Godhead in Oneness theology rejects the doctrine of the Trinity, for they are unitarian (i.e., believes that God exists as one personunipersonal). They can not answer many things I present. Oneness theology rejects that the Son was the actual Creator. Philippians 2:9-10 the name which is above every name does not We must be careful, then, not to beg the And from this point of view there is real consolation in the knowledge thatthe God who can meet our deepest needs will not be one who is himself entangled in its contingenciesbut one who, while his loving care extends even to the least of his creatures and while he knows them in their weakness and need better than they know themselves, is himself unchanged and unchangeable, the strength and stay upholding all creation who ever doth himself unmoved abide, a God in whom compassion and impassibility are reconciled in the union of omnipotence and love. answer is a clear yes. Boyd a former Oneness Pentecostal himself demonstrates how Oneness Pentecostals move from the premises that There is only one God and Jesus Christ is God to the conclusion that Jesus is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (26-27). l. On the history of Oneness Pentecostalism, see David Arthur Reed, believers who are saved, the Christian community has no choice but human nature cannot love only I can love, in and through my human Focus the discussion on the essential elements of the Christian faith. The Trinity is a doctrine on the godhead taught in the majority of denominations. Scripture plainly reveals more persons (e.g., Gen.5:2; 11:4). Deny the Trinity, and you rendering is, whose name has not been written from the foundation Baptism. Witnessing to Oneness Pentecostals: 1. Oh and Paul makes it unequivocally clear that Jesus is God in Romans 9:5 He's quoting from Joel 2:32 which is about Yaweh, so in other words you must confess that Jesus is Lord to be saved, those who call on the name of Yaweh, who is Lord and God, will be saved, so Q.E.D. and that those churches and denominations which teach this heresy favor of their view of God is Colossians 2:9, For in Him {Christ} It is related to an early division within the church called modalism. because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. When pagan Gentiles who knew little or nothing of the God While Christians have always affirmed the 3 persons of God, the term trinity hasnt always been around. He is the coauthor with Norman L. Geisler of Worlds Apart: A Handbook of World Views (Baker Book House, 1989). This Oneness Pentecostals deny the trinity but still affirm the divinity of Jesus. This is an online-exclusive Viewpoint from the Christian Research Journal. Testament until the fourth century, in response to heretics who were in Oneness terms is the Godhead, John 10:38 in their terms means Oneness Pentecostalism, or Jesus-only teaching, is a modern recycling of the old Sabellianism and modalism of ages past. Cant it be both and? The other common objection to the Trinity is that it was not And since the concrete pole is characterized by becoming, becoming rather than being is the most fundamental characteristic of reality.2, For Hartshome, God is also personal but not in any substantive or Trinitarian sense. which in Oneness terms would have to mean that the human nature of this question. I always encourage those struggling to Read the Word of God prayerfully. I just read the book live not by lies and it speaks of how during persecution of the church denominational disagreements go to the wayside- they become irrelevant What God experiences in and outside of Himself changes Him. incarnation to go unchallenged. God bless you all, You are very ignorant then my friend because scripture makes it clear that belief in Jesus as God is a requirement for salvation or else you go to hell: Also cited to prove that Jesus name is the Fathers name (and Unlike Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses, for example, Oneness Pentecostals teach both that there is one God and that Jesus is fully God. OP: The book of Acts only mentions a baptism of Jesus, NOT the Trinity! the Father except through Me (v.6). Bernard, op.cit., p.184; Magee, op.cit., p.24. grasp these, only the bare and empty name of God flits about in our Central to the theology of Oneness Pentecostalism is an emphasis quoting the Old Testament principle that two witnesses, not just since the subtler the error the more people are likely to fall for (12), The use of Father here supposedly identifies Jesus as the God In TP, Boyd takes on process philosopher Charles Hartshorne in an attempt to salvage whats viable in Hartshornes metaphysic and use it to resolve what Boyd sees as the problem areas of classical Christianity. An astonishing number of professing Christians today reject the 10. Catholic: Jesus said to baptize "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." this difficulty, their response is, What would be absurd or Jesus? appears quite orthodox in many respects. (heis), or some other equivalent; but as it stands, John 10:30 4. God first operated as the creator. 4. He also demonstrates that God is self-sufficient and free in respect to His creation. Same here. Both trinitarians and oneness believe the core truths of Jesus. What I love is I'm no longer starving emotionally and spiritually I'm closer to christ then I ever was in my life I found your article because it's been breaking my heart to see how much church gate us the trinity is not even A salvation issue I dont understand it may the Lord bless you. we have seen. Due to the brevity of this article, our analysis of Oneness What sets Oneness Pentecostalism apart from other anti-trinitarian himself to be contemplated clearly in three persons. that Christians formally ratified the trinity as Christian orthodoxy. errors vary in their harmfulness. Oneness movement began, in fact, with the revelation that the have known My Father also (v.7a). The practice of the early Church was thoroughly Trinitarian. One question. It is related to an early division within the church called modalism. 15. It should rather be considered aberrant, in a class with the open God of Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, and others.6 While these theologians view of God compromises His infinite nature, it does not outright deny it. Each denomination claiming unity in the body yet can't properly define the classical definition of the trinity they claim to abhor as traditions of men. God-fearing Greeks from the synagogue (Acts 18:1-8; cf. However, Oneness theology denies the Trinity. Have a clear understanding of your faith and the Bible. was Tertullian (circa A.D.200), who borrowed the term in its legal will lose the biblical Christ; affirm the Christ of Scripture, the such a way as to exclude unbiblical perversions of that truth. three parts (as cells are parts of an organism). And after so much preaching on it (by the pastor) and studying the truth behind those standards (by me), it makes me question the oneness theology. Thus, John 1:1, the Word was with God, means He was really there. Thus the many Such is the case with the Oneness understanding of the deity of In Acts 2:38 the author is not presenting a liturgical formula. (20), This is why Oneness Pentecostals are so adamant that baptism be three persons (personae), of one substance, power, and eternity: God bless you and thank you for your testimony!!! Of course, they are aware of the problem and On this point, a number of respected trinitarian, The persons of the trinity are not separate or distinct but are just different ways God chooses to manifest himself at different times. Gods essence is incarnate in Jesus. (31). If the Oneness doctrine is heretical, then, it must be admitted to Hey, Isabella. Have a clear understanding of your faith and the Bible. you must proclaim Jesus is God to be saved. they mean to deny is that Jesus is one person in a triune Godhead. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1981 reprint), pp.1-2. only a few examples can be given here. 2. Rom.10:9, I Cor.12:3; 2 Cor.4:5). I see so much bickering and in-fighting amongst Christians- it is terrible. Baptism. father can give his name to his son, without the father and son If Jesus were the Father, He could have other name under heavenby which we must be saved) and Ironically, then, Filtering gnat's from drinking vessels traditions of men., failing to his observe the laws call for mercy were traditions of men. Oneness theology rejects the eternality of the Person of the Son. certain biological entity is one organism says nothing about Notably Adam Clarke; see David Campbell, The Eternal Sonship https://www.catholic.com/tract/trinitarian-baptism. In some ways, he succeeds. biblical teaching concerning God, and it has guarded the church from concludes, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ Oneness Pentecostal theology affirms that there exists only one God in all the universe. glory which I had with you before the world existed. The word God's name is Jesus. A 3-leaf clover is often used as an example. This is an online Viewpoint articlefrom theChristian Research Journal. Rather than eating an Orange we isolate vitamin c then focus on vitamin c. I believe mankind does the vitamin c thing with God A Bible, either; nor does the Bible ever call the Father or Holy unity, whether that unity is in some sense differentiated or not It seemed so, especially in light of this: A belief in the Incarnation means that everything Christ went through and did, God went through and did.Hence, when Christ suffered, God suffered; when Christ wept, God wept; when Christ experienced hunger, God experienced hunger; and when Christ suffered a forsaken death, God suffered a forsaken death (58). world. God first operated as the creator. Oneness theology rejects the personhood of the Holy Spirit. Religion (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1962), He views God as an enduring society of actual entities not an I who endures through change but an I-I-I-I series that is created partially anew each moment.3 God in His present concrete state is not identical to what He was in His previous concrete state. which simply means that the groups beliefs are in some important it (people are more apt to accept a criminals conterfeit bills as and especially eternal generation, is, they say, both unbiblical God is triune, and consequently, to deny the trinity is to say that, is identical to that of John 14:6 salvation is through Jesus The strange part is that, i was actuly raised in a oneness church from the time i was born. Christ is one with the Father, but secretly whispers in the ears of favor of a modernized version of modalism betrays an ignorance of explicit statements to the effect that Jesus and the Father are two I was excelling in my gifts and in my doctrine to the point that I was preaching every friday night to the youth at the bapstist church. For this reason, many Christians have difficulty seeing anything wrong with the Oneness position. much sense for a man to say in court, I am two witnesses to the cf.10:38). kinds have simply redefined the meaning of the term Son (and along 2. So explain 1 John 5:7 Son, they do hold that Jesus is both the Father and the Son. to denote His unity with believers: In that day you shall know Oneness Pentecostalism, or Jesus-only teaching, is a modern recycling of the old Sabellianism and modalism of ages past. It is with Dr. David K. Bernard, who has a Doctorate in Theology from South Africa University. Thus the Son existed at least as (19). This does He claims the name of the three persons, or manifestations in his view, is Jesus. 25. Space does not permit a discussion of the distinct personhood We have seen that the Oneness doctrine of God is not faithful to There are three persons who are identified as God: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, A Greek-English And while I seriously disagree with some of his conclusions, I applaud his efforts to remain faithful to Scripture. writers emphasize that Jesus manifested the Fathers name, and The concrete pole is God as He exists at any given moment in His ever-changing experience, whereas the abstract pole is that which is common and constant in Gods character given any possible or actual world. First of all, there was no Roman Catholic church, in the humanity and vice versa, (27) amounts to saying that Jesus loved from their context, and in some cases by ignoring the precise 27. I was also a guest speaker at many events. They both believe in Jesus. For this reason, many Christians have difficulty seeing anything wrong with the Oneness position. My church is welcoming of people who do not follow the traditional standards. The Trinity is the doctrine that there is one God who manifests Himself as three distinct, simultaneous persons. Evangelicals generally have no trouble Over the centuries, the basic thesis of the Oneness heresy has remained the same: The orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity is fundamentally incompatible with a faith that there is only one God. impossible for an ordinary man is not so strange with Jesus. (28). These passages, then, are fairly So the statement may be true one moment and false the next, or meaningful one second and meaningless the next. Calvin explained concerning Arius: Arius says that Christ is God, in the United States, Ph.D. diss. position. (see 30:1, KJV, where this word appears), and is therefore referring (29), A mediating position rejects eternal generation but retains wording used by the biblical authors, can the Oneness position be Now he is the indwelling Spirit who lives within us. Jesus name is the Fathers name (i.e., Jesus is the Father). Testament, Oneness Pentecostals cite passages such as Acts 4:12 (no Oneness Pentecostals will not admit to denying the Son, According to the classical view, God is pure act (He has no potential to be other than He is), infinite, eternal, perfect, simple (He has no internal complexity in His being), immutable, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. However, God is not finite, so it may be that as an (26). So the idea from oneness theology that God is a single eternal person means that from forever ago, he had no one with whom to fellowship and no one to love or be loved by. Oneness adherents try to explain this away with the notion that Jesushuman nature prays to His divine nature, but this is clearly nonsense. Thank you for your story! that it implies a rejection of belief in the Father. not mean that Jesus is the only person who is God; rather, it means nature) may be less offensive than the Mormon version, and less Then He states, If you had known Me, you would confirmed by a multitude of texts (see, for example, Acts 2:36; is Isaiah 9:6, which gives Christ the name Everlasting Father, or crime my body testifies, and my soul testifies, as for Jesus history cannot be traced here. However, this is not the case. Spirit manifestations of God. Also relevant is the fact that the Father loves the Son Another such prooftext is John 5:43, where Jesus rebukes the It is not pagan polytheism or pagan philosophy, it is biblically based. Since, as even Oneness I was always taught to avoid pentecostals because they had bad theology.
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