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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
George Wood has been in Pentecost for over 50 years why has he not been lead into the truth according to Oneness doctrine?
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And why haven't all the Oneness folks been led into the truth of the trinity?
When I got the Holy Ghost, I had no conception of 'Oneness vs trinity'. The word 'trinity' to me, at that time, simply meant God the Father, Jesus the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit. But the INSTANT God filled me with the Holy Ghost I KNEW I was just filled with JESUS CHRIST. It was JESUS who came into my soul, into my being, into my spirit, into my very person.
Within about a week I met a brother who showed me
Isaiah 9:6 and
Matthew 28:18-19 and
Acts 2:38 and it MADE PERFECT SENSE.
It wasn't until years later that I heard the term 'Oneness' as a theological concept of the godhead. Prior to that I simply thought of the 'trinity' as being the three ways God reveals himself to mankind - as Father, as the son (Jesus of Nazareth), as the Spirit. I did NOT however have any conception of 'three people' or 'three persons' or 'three personalities' in heaven or anywhere else. All 'three' were ONE to me - and HIS NAME WAS JESUS.
After I studied the issues of trinity, Oneness, Arianism, two-ness, etc etc... I have become even more convinced than ever that the trinity
doctrine is a man made lie borrowed from Jewish and pagan gnosticism foisted upon Christendom. I have also become ever more convinced that the average 'trinitarian' has no idea what 'trinity' actually means or implies. I am convinced based upon my interactions with trinitarians that the average trinitarian believes as I did - that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three terms for the three ways God relates to us.
I have also met some who are outright tritheists, though they of course would deny it.
And I have met a couple who swear up and down that 'trinity means Jesus is not God, just God's son'. Go figure.
I have also listened to a baptist 'trinitarian' preacher preach the deity of Jesus as strongly and as well as any Oneness preacher. And I have listened to trinitarians pray, and many times they go from praying to God the Father to Jesus back and forth AS IF THEY WERE ONENESS.
Example: Holy Father, we worship you and praise you and give you glory Lord Jesus, for you are worthy of honour and praise Lord God, bless us with your presence Lord, let your will be done Lord Jesus, for we are your children and you are our Abba Father Lord God... etc etc.
Many trinitarians are Oneness through and through until you bring up the subject of 'the trinity' then suddenly they have to defend the triune godhead at all costs, mostly due to lack of knowledge of what they are talking about, I suspect. Many trinitarians, if you say to them 'the trinity is a false conception of God' think you are simply denying the deity of Jesus.
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