David Bernard´s book on oneness

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Originally Posted by DaveC519

Hello all,

I do agree that DKB's Oneness of God is still a good "standard" treatment of Oneness theology for those not wishing to engage in technical, scholastic theosophy. However, because of certain phraseology he employed which appeared to posit a Nestorian Christ, his arguments were open to criticism from Trinitarianism. Although, in his defense, I do not believe he has ever held to a Nestorian Christ, nor even subconsciously reified Christ's two natures. Other Oneness believers knew what he meant; it was mostly Trinitarians who misinterpreted him!

As to the subject at hand, I think we can say that God is the only being who exists in multiple concurrent distinctions of existence: transcendent (Father), immanent (Holy Spirit), and incarnate (Son). It is the interaction between these which the human mind tends to interpret as interactions of multiple persons, and which ultimately gave rise to Trinitarianism. Oneness theology today seeks to understand the interactions between God's existential distinctions within the framework of classic monotheism (God is one in being AND person).

That second paragraph is exceptional, DaveC. That's the kind of thing that the "godhead ninjas" could cut-and-paste and be very well served in doing so.