Oneness Pentecostals
refuting the errors

neness Pentecostals teach, among other things, that God is One Person. They call this “The Oneness of God” which is a modern day version of a third century heresy known as “Monarchianism”. Monarchianism and Oneness Theology both teach one God and one Person. They deny the doctrine of the Trinity. Another common name for their belief is “Jesus only” Pentecostalism. They believe that only Jesus is God, denying any separate persons of the Father and the Holy Spirit, stating that the Father and the Spirit are the divine nature of Jesus Christ.

Patripassionism and Sabellianism returns!
Sabellius was a third century heretic who claimed that God was three only in relation to the world. He claimed that God appeared in three different manifestations or “modes”. Sabellius taught a more sophisticated form of patripassionism. Patripassionism is the belief that the Father had come to earth and died under the appearance of the Son [patri=father; passion=suffer]. Sabellius taught that a divine monad, through a process of expansion projected itself successively in revelation as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As Father it revealed itself as Creator and Lawgiver. As Son it revealed itself as Redeemer, and as Spirit it revealed itself as the giver of grace. All three modes were expressions of the same person.
A prominent leader in the oneness movement is Ken Raggio, he says, “Most people do not realize that Jesus Christ was only literal incarnation of the one Holy Spirit - our Father”
Patripassionists and Oneness Pentecostals teach that God the Father came into a body, forming the person we call Jesus.

To refute Oneness theology, we need to establish two facts:
1) The Son of God is divine and not merely the human nature of Jesus.
2) The Son of God and the Father are distinct persons.

The Father and the Lamb are separate and worshipped before the throne!

In Revelation 5:1-9 we read that God, who was seated on the throne held a scroll. But no one was worthy to open it! Finally, the Lamb of God [Jesus] takes the scroll and opens it. Only He can open it, because He was slain. The Father on the throne is not worthy to open the scroll, only the Lamb is! In this story, both the Father on the throne and the Lamb are worshipped.

This shatters modern-day Patripassionist Oneness Pentecostals, which states that the Father became flesh and was slain on the cross.
This passage also renders modal Oneness Pentecostalism invalid due to the two Persons being shown here.

Notice that in this scene there are TWO different & separate persons [one is worthy to open the scroll, and the other is not], and BOTH are worshipped as God Almighty! The Oneness of God has been refuted by Scripture!

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