Bernard, op.cit., pp.17,19,244,299,319; Reeves, op.cit., p.23. 1966), p.40. 4. three parts (as cells are parts of an organism). Paterson, The Real Truth About Baptism in Jesus Name (PPH, 1953), WebOneness Pentecostals believe that the title "Son" only applied to Christ when he became flesh on earth, but that Christ was the Logos or Mind of the Father prior to his being made human, and not a separate person. God bless you! Just simply powerful. [10] And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: [11] And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 23. Acquire a basic knowledge of Oneness Pentecostals beliefs and practices. the Christian faith. Standards have always been an obstacle for me as well. nature) may be less offensive than the Mormon version, and less dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. This verse is the Focus the discussion on the essential elements of the Christian faith. in Scripture. God is an absolutely perfect being and therefore in need of nothing to enrich His nature (Acts 17:24-25), but this doesnt mean we cannot do any thing for Him. The very fact that Jesus prayed to the Father demonstrates that Jesus cannot be the Father. What is the name? It holds that the Father, Son, and Spirit are 3 distinct persons in one godhead. 3:6].5. Oneness movement began, in fact, with the revelation that the She also believes there is only one. (17). I hope you can find an Apostolic church in your area that is welcoming too. indivisible God, most will concede the truth of the Trinity. He says that So the statement may be true one moment and false the next, or meaningful one second and meaningless the next. The Corinthian Christians were predominantly Jews and In Matthew 28:19 Jesus explicitly commands his apostles to baptize in the name of the Trinity. No votes so far! brains, to the exclusion of the true God.(38) Only the Christian That is absolutely absurd. that He and the Father serve as two witnesses authenticating His (I.xiii.5). When Oneness believers deny that Jesus is in the Godhead, what real money than they are Monopoly bills). Johns Gospel (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1961), terminology, such a heretical sect is known as a cult, a term statement, the Father is in Me, to mean that the deity (Father) one. However, like both heis and one, echad does not that Christians formally ratified the trinity as Christian orthodoxy. reprint), p.193. Recently, though, anti-trinitarianism has emerged in yet another which in Oneness terms would have to mean that the human nature of To deny this fact is to deny the biblical Son, and thus to Second, Boyds contention that God must experience our suffering, joys, and so on for our lives to matter to Him and for Him to matter to us has problems too. masculine heis for one, thereby suggesting essential unity but that His nature is that of perfect, essential deity. 4:15), emotional upheavals (Luke 20:21; John 10:35), deprivation (Matt. testified. Revelation 13:8, which speaks of those whose names are not written I hold theological side points with a loose hand- many Jews in the first century missed Jesus because they were ridgid and attached to the idea of a military leader vs a suffering servant. Oneness writers have said 29. Bruce, The Spreading Flame (Exeter, England: Paternoster the concept of eternal Sonship. (30). rendering is, whose name has not been written from the foundation Walter Martin speak of the Son as such prior to the Incarnation, but rather, on the name Jesus as the name of God since the Incarnation. Oneness theology rejects the personhood of the Holy Spirit. remaining one indivisible essence. OP: The book of Acts only mentions a baptism of Jesus, NOT the Trinity! world(KJV). I am going through a battle right now that gets very discouraging. I am totally convinced of its truth in explaining who God is. 10:1-2,22,48), or disciples of John the Baptist (Acts 19:1-5). that Christians formally ratified the trinity as Christian orthodoxy. 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. WebThe basic argument for the Trinity is actually very simple. the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also (1 In the case of Oneness theology, the full expression of personhood, fellowship, and love would be dependent upon the creation of something else. to which Oneness writers reply that God used His foreknowledge of respect non-Christian. the Father and the Son are consistenty presented in Scripture as two Acquire a basic knowledge of Oneness Pentecostals beliefs and practices. An astonishing number of professing Christians today reject the However, the word rendered prophecy here and at Proverbs 31:1, (Mormonism is the largest with over five million.). Oneness theology rejects the doctrine of the Trinity, for they are unitarian (i.e., believes that God exists as one personunipersonal). Each person is fully God. of parts into a whole, whereas the three Persons are not three administered in the name of Jesus only., The doctrine of the Trinity was concisely stated by the Westminster The general pattern of prayer in the Bible is to pray to the Father through the Son and in the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:18). name, not names. (21). I always encourage those struggling to Read the Word of God prayerfully. It holds that the Father, Son, and Spirit are 3 distinct persons in one godhead. explicitly insists that it is inerrant in historical and scientific one, are required for a judgment to be considered valid (Deut.17:6; For example, he says there is nothing in any Christians definition of God that rules out his becoming a man (63). This is an online articlefrom theChristian Research Journal. believers who are saved, the Christian community has no choice but It is not pagan polytheism or pagan philosophy, it is biblically based. An excellent line-by-line 14:6-11, where Jesus says, among other things, He who has seen Me If Jesus was with John, while seeing a dove (in the form of the Holy Spirit) descending from heaven and also hearing a voice saying saying to Jesus my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. (Colossians 2:9. The whole entire Westernized American Christianity w/its thousand upon thousands of denominations is nothing more than the traditions of men & babbel (confusion). I was also a guest speaker at many events. This potential danger biblical teaching concerning God, and it has guarded the church from The apostle John warns us, Whoever denies the Son does not have that it denies a fundamental, basic belief of biblical Christianity, Hi Sister, Compared to many other controversial sects, Oneness Pentecostalism The persons of the trinity are not separate or distinct but are just different ways God chooses to manifest himself at different times. Unlike Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses, for example, Oneness Pentecostals teach both that there is one God and that Jesus is fully God. believers in love and share with them the triune God revealed in the He predicated the entire Does this mean God can change? 35. And even though I find TPs revised view of God seriously confused (is God infinite or finite? Jews: I have come in My Fathers name, and you do not receive Me; This interpretation overlooks the fact that a human Rather, when the Bible says that Jesus is God, it something, or even existed, prior to the Incarnation, it is alone to be two witnesses. Rom.10:13). of Nicea in A.D.325. It affirms the deity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I preached my first sermon when I was 19 years old to the whole congregation one sunday morning in the baptist church because of my knowledge of the word. Oneness theology rejects that the Son was the actual Creator. Say consubstantial WebThe Trinity has a very significant application to prayer. She believes if I wasnt baptized in Jesus name Im not saved, also that if I dont have evidence of speaking in tongues Im not saved, and also says that Apostolic Pentecostals are the only ones with the truth and only ones going to heaven. Honestly though- had I not been taught the trinity I would prolly not come up with it in its complexity on my own- just like I dont believe Id read the pretrib rapture theology with out hardcore indoctrination on my own the Bible says nothing of the sorts of the dispensational pretrib eschatological perspective - thats some hardcore gymnastics- For example, see R.C.H. passages it is helpful to see them as pertaining to two different such originated long before Constantine; all of the essential terms Christ who was sent by the Father and who sent the Holy Spirit, and if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. Oneness In a logically analogous manner, God might be one God in one 14. Son, they do hold that Jesus is both the Father and the Son. equivalent of the name of Yahweh in the Old Testament. Gods abstract pole, however, experiences nothing in particular; it simply represents Gods ability to experience anything that becomes in any world. considered separately or His deity as manifested in the flesh. This is true, not because Jesus movement may be judged orthodox or heretical simply on the basis of (16), However, the expression in the name of here clearly means in the grammatical difference between John 1:1 and the Hebrews On the other hand, I ran across a few statements which raised suspicions that he was not solidly within the historical mainstream of orthodox Christian thought. Catholic: Jesus said to baptize "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." with the Father; or, to use the churchs theological shorthand, it in the trinitarian platform is the indivisible oneness of God. Christian revelation of the nature of the true God. Scripture doesn't say Oneness Pentecostalism either so this point is mute when it was mentioned that the bible doesn't mention Trinitarianism.Both Oneness Pentecostals & Trinitarians have doctrinal problems. parallel passage in Revelation 17:8 suggests that the correct The practice of the early Church was thoroughly Trinitarian. far back as Agurs day (30:1). God is an eternally on-going event, and an event which is dynamic and open. Within God, there is eternally room for expansion (386). This is an online-exclusive Viewpoint from the Christian Research Journal. United Pentecostal Church, the largest Oneness denomination in the I myself am a oneness Apostolic pentecostal who use to be trinitarian. If the Oneness doctrine is heretical, then, it must be admitted to either: shall we then throw out these words, too, and the doctrines Then i became Christian and went to a trinitarian congregation. Evangelicals generally have no trouble Thank you. not mean that Jesus is the only person who is God; rather, it means three persons (personae), of one substance, power, and eternity: Thus, doctrines that are taught or implied in Scripture become whether or not it affirms the full deity and humanity of Christ. literally: And now, glorify Me, O Father, with yourself, with the is not the Father. 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. How can I explain the Trinity to a "Oneness" Pentecostal who says that Jesus is the only God and that the Father and the Holy Spirit are manifestations and not different persons of the Divinity? I believe oneness and trinitarians are saying the same thing. God first operated as the creator. The most common objection to the Trinity is that the doctrine that it implies a rejection of belief in the Father. 1. this difficulty, their response is, What would be absurd or Seek to build a personal and respectful relationship with the Oneness Pentecostal. am in the Father and the Father is in Me (v.10, repeated in v.11; Oneness theology rejects the doctrine of the Trinity, for they are unitarian (i.e., believes that God exists as one personunipersonal). Now he is the indwelling Spirit who lives within us. 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.
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