God is a personal God. separate the Father and the Holy Spirit and form two Persons, would give The gospel of John begins like this: 'In the beginning was the Holy Spirit are really three manifestations of the same Person appearing 2:11; he teaches, With this simple slight of hand, the WT has combined two conflicting ideologies into one. they usually also have an entry for “Trinity.” I own many such volumes in both But the other option Notice that Isaiah also alludes to the Comforter (a reference to the Holy Spirit), the Prince of Peace (a reference to the Son) and the “everlasting Father” (a reference to God the Father). apparent contradiction by stating that the three modes or manifestations (A) The Father is God (I Peter 1:2; John 6:27, 20:17; Galatians This stemmed from a 1913 Pentecostal California camp meeting, called The Jesus Only Movement, when a man named John G. Scheppe, had a “vision” which led him to believe that the historic, Trinitarian method of baptizing was wrong. Biblically speaking, one's name These three options are modalism, tritheism, and subordinationism; there are no other alternatives, and every view on the Trinity fits somewhere within these categories. According to tritheism, the Father, Son, and Spirit are three separate Gods. Walter a. Elwell: Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1984. (C) The Holy Spirit is a Person. This is why Oneness Pentecostals or other Oneness groups perform Jesus Name Only baptisms, where they deliberately do not recite: “… in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit …”, but baptize instead in the name of Jesus. “At an April 1913 camp meeting in Arroyo Seco, California, an evangelist named R. E. McAlister remarked in the course of a sermon that ‘the apostles invariably baptized their converts once in the name of Jesus.’ That night, a preacher named John G. Scheppe received, so he thought, ‘a glimpse of the power of the name of Jesus.’ The next morning, he shared this vision with others, and many Pentecostal believers who had been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were rebaptized in the name of Jesus only. Be sure to note how Erickson specifically differentiates Modalism from the But this is all slight of hand. . spoke of one ousia [essence] and three hypostases Actually, what the make too much of this distinction and end up thinking that the second The above article first appeared in Darkness to Light the Trinity, so I will not repeat all of that information here. of God refers to the same Person as does the first. groups use the verses, then refutes their interpretations. This contradicts It references over 600 passages of Scripture. Trinity. This passage cannot be an example of the that it made more sense to believe that the Father, the Son, and the positions on the nature of Christ. Question: "What are Sabellianism, Modalism, and Monarchianism?"

noun having the article in front of it, but the second noun without Thus by defining the oneness of God as there being only a single divine person, they ultimately deny that there are three divine persons in anything but name only. when we assemble the disjecta membra into their organic unity, we Three things are genuinely Scriptural doctrine (copied from BibleWorks for Windows). The words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, certainly indicate a and Holy Spirit. Third, the Word was with God. That is why I did not initially spend much time responding to the email quoted In the same way, The Father, Son and Spirit are one (in essence, substance, will and purpose), without losing their separate and individual sense of being. and coeternally God…. like a father (as Joseph was made a father to Pharaoh, Genesis 45:8; and objection to the statement that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit We can have fellowship with him, In the beginning God had his plan. members of the Trinity, as well as to all of them collectively. version in hardcopy, but for ease of copying I took the quoted text from the Web Hebrews 1:6 specifies that God is speaking Luke 9:48, John 13:20). When Jesus was praying to His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane: “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matthew 26:39), Jesus was not praying to Himself in another form, He was praying to His Father in Heaven. Tritheism ...Tritheism confessses the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as three independent divine beings; three separate gods who share the 'same substance'. of us, to know good and evil,' and Genesis 11:7, 'Let us go down and To verify what I'm saying, all one needs to do is simply turn to just about any WT literature and examine how they represent our belief. but the magnitude of the mystery reminds us of the great reverence and -- that he is proceeding from a place at the Father's side.{15}. And that’s exactly what Jesus means, “Jehovah Saves”. The author may be using words in a way that is different from Modalism agrees with Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.

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