I can understand it if a couple of American preachers got fed up with Trinitarian teachings they could never hope to understand and fancied something easier and chose modalism. I can understand how unlearned, poorly educated people brought up as Christians but baffled by philosophical concepts of Trinity were tempted into modalistic Oneness Pentecostalism. What I cannot understand is why when along comes truth, without the complex nuanced Ancient Greek philosophy ideas of a Trinity, just simple truth that the Father is the one forever at the top, the one Most High God, with even the Son being forever subject to Him, yet Father and Son being two that testify as two individuals with independent testimonies, how the modalists cannot simply accept this. It is not rocket science. It is not Ancient Greek. Why persist the redundant ideas? Truth. You want one. The Father is one. His unity with the Son is like Paul’s unity with Peter. It is really that simple. It is not complex. You wonder how He, the Father, can share His throne with the Son and still be the One God? Well He is sovereign. He is allowed. And the Son is allowed to share his throne with those who overcome. It is his right. Forever in the end it all goes back to the Father. He alone has the top spot for ever and ever. It is the Father who is that one Most High God. But He can and He does make Jesus the Lord. That is the Father’s sovereign right.
