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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN Oneness Pentecostals believe that Jesus was "Son" only when he became flesh on earth, but was the Father before being made man. They refer to the Father as the "Spirit" and the Son as the "Flesh". But they believe that Jesus and the Father are one essential Person. Though operating as different "manifestations" or "modes". Oneness Pentecostals reject the Trinity doctrine, viewing it as pagan and un-Scriptural, and hold to the Jesus' Name doctrine with respect to baptisms. They are often referred to as "Modalists" or "Sabellians" or "Jesus Only". Oneness Pentecostalism can be compared to Sabellianism, or can be described as holding to a form of Sabellianism, as both are nontrinitarian, and as both believe that Jesus was "Almighty God in the Flesh", but they do not totally identify each other. Current opposition While Oneness Pentecostals seek to differentiate themselves from ancient Sabellianism, modern theologians such as James R. White and Robert Morey see no difference between the ancient heresy of Sabellianism and current Oneness doctrine. This is based on the denial by Oneness Pentecostals of the Trinity based upon a denial of the distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Sabellianism, Patripassianism, Modalistic Monarchianism, functionalism, Jesus Only, Father Only, and Oneness Pentecostalism are viewed as being derived from the Platonic doctrine that God was an indivisible Monad and could not be divided into three separate Persons. These are Christians who do not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity ("one God in three co-equal Persons"). Oneness Pentecostalism • Affirming Pentecostal Church International • Apostolic Assemblies of Christ • Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus • Apostolic Gospel Church of Jesus Christ • Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God • Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ • Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith • Churches of Jesus Christ International • The Empowerment Assemblies of God (Apostolic) • Pentecostal Assemblies of the World • Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith International, Incorporated • True Jesus Church • United Pentecostal Church International 125
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN XIII SOCINIANISM Faustus Socinus (1539–1604), the namesake of Socinianism Socinianism (extinct as a modern and distinct group) Socinianism is a system of Christian doctrine named for Fausto Sozzini, which was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Minor Reformed Church of Poland during the 16th and 17th centuries and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period. It is most famous for its nontrinitarian Christology but contains a number of other unorthodox beliefs as well. The ideas of Socinianism date from the element of the Protestant Reformation known as the Radical Reformation and have their root in the Italian Anabaptist movement of the 1540s, such as the Antitrinitarian Council of Venice in 1550. Lelio Sozzini was the first of the Italian Antitrinitarians to go beyond Arian beliefs in print and deny the pre-existence of Christ in his Brevis explicatio in primum Johannis caput – a commentary on the meaning of the Logos in John Chapter 1:1–15 (1562). The most distinctive element in Socinian, as opposed to Arian, Christology is the objection of the personal pre-existence of Christ. The theme of Christ's preexistence occurs repeatedly in the Racovian Catechism, with detailed discussion of disputed verses, such as: 126
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