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Originally Posted by Iron_Bladder
Why does Oneness deny the Son as creator?
My only explanation would be because they deny that the Son possess any divine attributes! (as the Son) The Son in Oneness, as in Mormonism, Unitarianism and the Watchtower is just a created being, who comes into existance at a point in time and who lacks divine attributes; although some of these sects such as the Watchtower do confusingly make him co-creator.
In Oneness the one true God is he who indwells the SON, the 'Almighty God in Christ,' the Son himself is just a human shell in Oneness theology who completely lacks divine attributes and so isn't; eternal, creator, Omniscient, Omnipresent, immutible, Omniscient, Omnipotent etc.
So the Son in Oneness isn't God, but is a mere man with God inside of him.
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The Bible never says that the Son is the Creator but, instead that it is by Him that GOD created (see
John 1:3;
John 1:10;
1 Cor. 8:6;
Hebrews 1:2; and
Hebrews 2:10). How did GOD create? He spoke Creation into existence and what God spoke (and the power behind it) was the logos in
John 1.
Consider also the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed:
We believe in
one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light, True God of True God, Begotten, not made, of one essence with the Father,
by Whom all things were made:
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man;
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;
And the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures;
And ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father;
And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in
the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke by the Prophets;
And we believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
And the life of the age to come. Amen.
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