Originally posted by Bill the Cat
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The problem with discussions about the Trinity is that it always ends with the participants committing errors about the nature of the Trinity.
The errors, apart from the abovementioned critical, make or break goof up, are:
1. Denial of the Trinity
2. Three different modes: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
3. No simultaneous existence
I have not denied the doctrine of the Trinity.
I have stated that Christ though He was God, did not think that it was something to cling to but emptied Himself taking the on form of a bond-servant, being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. IOW, Christ Himself went through a pre-incarnational form, incarnational form and post incarnational form. If you object to the use of the word "form" then your argument is with Scripture, not with my statements.
Phillipians 2:5Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Thirdly, it is held by scholars to be logical and sensible to view that every incident of God communicating with men in ways that men use to communicate, it was the Word of God communicating with men. That is the only view that can be reached when the idea that any other communication or contact with God would lead to death is taken to its logical conclusion.
https://carm.org/modalism
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Modalism
by Matt Slick
Modalism is probably the most common theological error concerning the nature of God. It is a denial of the Trinity. Modalism states that God is a single person who, throughout biblical history, has revealed Himself in three modes or forms. Thus, God is a single person who first manifested himself in the mode of the Father in Old Testament times. At the incarnation, the mode was the Son; and after Jesus' ascension, the mode is the Holy Spirit. These modes are consecutive and never simultaneous. In other words, this view states that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit never all exist at the same time--only one after another. Modalism denies the distinctiveness of the three persons in the Trinity even though it retains the divinity of Christ.
Present-day groups that hold to forms of this error are the United Pentecostal and United Apostolic Churches. They deny the Trinity, teach that the name of God is Jesus, and require baptism for salvation. These modalist churches often accuse Trinitarians of teaching three gods. This is not what the Trinity is. The correct teaching of the Trinity is one God in three eternal coexistent persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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In conclusion, do clarify where I have missed out in being orthodox.
Else I will have to assume that the vaunted fairmindedness of TWeb no longer holds, and silencing radical and uncomfortable views through unfair means is becoming the order of the day.
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