Very Interesting From The Apostolic News

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Originally Posted by pelathais

The symposium I mentioned had WC as a respondent to another paper, as I recall. He was then taking questions, standing at his seat at a table rather than the podium. He stood to respond to a number of questions. The general mood of the audience seemed to one of skepticism toward the claims that he had made in an earlier paper and also toward some statements that he had made then.

J.L. Hall was moderating the Q&A and asking some questions himself.

WC finally offered a plea about "how the RCC had destroyed so much" [of the writings of the alleged "Oneness" people] and how the RCC falsely accused "Oneness people" of being Arians, Dualists and etc. It was because of this alleged condition of the historical record that he maintained that he was free to "extrapolate" from the historical record and declare groups like the Manicheans and others were actually "Oneness."

The facts of the historical record are actually rather plain, given the fact that we are dealing with ancient history here. And, there was a tendency for some ancient writers to misrepresent the views of their antagonists (just like the modern forum world). Given all of that, there still has never been any example of a "20th Century Oneness Apostolic" in existence at any time from about 200 or 225 A.D. through about 1900 A.D.

None. No one. No evidence, nobody any where in that time period.

I think Kal has the same problem ... he can try to prove baptism with the right formula being used ... but even his examples of Anglican paedobaptists baptizing primarily babies by sprinkling in the name of Christ (not Gee-zuz) falls considerably short of the "Apostolic" message.