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Originally Posted by sola gratia
well that is a title given to someone who typically does not view GOD in the same manner that most oneness folks do - I'd prefer not to be labeled - I find certain elements of the view(trinitarian) valid - as with certain elements of the oneness view
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There is also the issue of which version of the trinity doctrine. There is the trinity doctrine of the Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creeds (the version I adhere to) and there are various modern versions that border on tritheism (such as John Ankerberg's defining "persons" as "centers of consciousness"). Then, of course, in the days before the Nicene Creed there were discussions about an economic trinity and an immanent trinity. What it all comes down to is the use of the term "persons," which came to us not from the early Creeds but from a significant change in the trinity doctrine imposed by Cyril in the fifth century when he insisted that people needed to stop referring to Father, Son and Holy Spirit by the Greek word "prosopon" and its Latin equivalent "persona" and start referring to them by the Greek word "hypostasis" - the word that was subsequently translated "person" in the KJV of
Hebrews 1:3.
Hybrid Mode
