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Re: Your not Oneness but rather Patripassionist
Oneness Pentecostalism has been associated with patripassianism. According to Dr. Gary Reckart, Sr. an Apostolic Messianic : "If as Oneness believe, that God the Father was incarnate in Christ, which Jesus confessed ("it is the Father in me that doeth the work"), the Father was in Christ during all of the sufferings and being nailed to the cross. Thus the Father did suffer or experience the sufferings of the Son up to the time the Father departed from the body". Oneness Pentecostals have the belief that those that make statements like Dr. Reckart, the assumption that God the Father, a divine spirit becoming flesh (Jesus Christ the Son), would have to feel pain, is advancing a supposition much like Tertullian and other opponents of a Oneness doctrine. Dr. Reckart emphasizes that Oneness do not believe (as also the ancient patripassians did not) that the Father died on the cross as the Son, nor that the Father died to replace the death of the Son.
There are no known examples of any direct writings of Oneness Pentecostals ascribing to the belief of Patripassianism.
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