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Originally Posted by Aquila
For me and my Trinitarian friends the battle ground is the word "person". In Modalism, each mode has a distinct sense of self-consciousness. For example, the Father has a distinct sense of divine self consciousness. The Son has a distinct sense of human self consciousness. In Trinitarianism a subsistent center of self-consciousness is a person. Therefore, to them, what we call modes are persons. And by their definition they are right. The Modalist defines "person" in a way more akin to how they would describe "being". So we say God is one person in three modes... they say God is a single being in three persons. lol
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The biggest difference is that we make a BIG deal out of it and most trinnies are blissfully ignorant that there is any difference in what we believe unless we explain it. Having lived some 40 years in trinitarian faiths I can promise you that the majority of mainstream Christians have no idea that Oneness exists. They believe that they believe in one God, the God of the bible and his son Jesus Christ who is God and the Holy Spirit who is also God.
Whether or not we are willing to believe them about that is up to us.
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