Oneness and Trinitarian Unity?

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by OGIA

He did the same many times when He walked the earth and on the day of Pentecost and beyond, Felicity. It doesn't mean He wants them to stay that way, though.

I never said that he wants them to stay any particular way. I think He expects we're all going to grow and mature as we walk with God. That's certainly the plan anyhow. Some never do of course, but hopefully most do.

He leads us by His Spirit and His Word .... but there are different interpretations of what the Word teaches. We have all these different ideas and views and doctrines even within the Oneness movement.

If someone came along and told us (apostolic Oneness people) that we were erring doctrinally on a certain point that has been ingrained in us and a tradition that has been kept for many many years we'd have a hard time accepting that and making the changes. I can guarantee you.

I know that for ourselves every person who has ever attended the churches we've pastored - who sat under my husband's ministry and submitted to his leadership - if they were baptized in the titles, they were rebaptized in the name of Jesus.

It took time to show them why and to do some teaching. Some were slower than others in responding but eventually they too were rebaptized.

The exception to this is the church we're pastoring now. But we're working on this and have baptized a couple dozen or more since coming here a couple years ago. There are certainly more sitting in this particular congregation who need to be re-baptized in Jesus name.