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Monday, 21 October 2024

Oneness Pentecostals

 The way Oneness adherents speak about Jesus and about whether, and in what sense, they believe he is the Son of God — the words and logic they use to express it — it is not like how the apostle John, say, in his epistles wrote about believing Jesus is the Son of God. John must have had a different kind of spirit and trusted a different version of teachings. Some Oneness adherents clearly have a different spirit and they preach a different Jesus to Jesus known from the preaching of John, Paul, Jude, James, Peter, Luke, Mark, Matthew and the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews. John, Peter, Jude, James, Matthew, Mark, Paul had all met Jesus and most of them had spent years with him. It is these that Jesus sent out as those who knew him. Theirs is a very different way of describing how they believed Jesus is the Son of God. It is very different to how many Oneness adherents describe Jesus as Son of God. If Oneness adherents, especially the Pentecostals, claim to be born again of the spirit, the question is surely WHICH spirit. What spirit and what teachings?