Ive been to a united penetocostal church and they do not belive in the trinity but believe that Jesus is the only one in the Godhead. So, is their belief wrong or correct?
2006-09-05 12:22:36 · 18 answers · asked by Angel06 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are mistaken about the United Pentecostal belief regarding the Oneness of the Godhead.
They do not believe there is no trinity. They believe that all three members of the Godhead are the same being... Jesus.
Jesus is the name of the "Father." Jesus is the name of the "Son." Jesus is the name of the Holy Spirit.
It isn't really a matter of believing in the father, son, and holy spirit as much as it is the words that are spoken while being baptized. Trinitarians baptize saying, "In the name of the father, son, and holy spirit," and Pentecostals say, "In Jesus Name."... the actual NAME of the father, son and holy spirit.
Personally, I don't put much faith in either way. I think God is far more complicated than any human could ever comprehend... and certainly more complex than people from thousands of years ago could grasp.
People will always find ways to divide humans up into smaller easier to control groups.
I would spend more time studying the things Jesus said and did and less time worrying about the details of modern denominations. Jesus didn't start the United Pentecostal Church. Not a single person who ever witnessed the miracles and ministry of Jesus ever attended a United Pentecostal Church.
Jesus said that if he is lifted up, he will draw all mankind to himself. What more do we really need to know?
2006-09-05 13:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by Dustin Lochart 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually... UPC doesn't teach the truth as far as what Trinitarians believe. I believe in the Trinity and I have never been told they're sepperate beings. I believe they are all Jesus...One being.
Though even among Oneness believers, there are differing beliefs, solely on the fact that not everyone can understand the concept. I see myself as a trinity also, body mind and spirit...all are me. I see The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit are all Jesus the same way. Now, the case might be that the next person who says they believe in the Trinity sees it differently, but there are just varius ideas about it, there is no point blank teaching of it that everyone agrees with. However a lot of UPC pastors like to shout from the pulpit what they THINK we believe but they really don't know.
2006-09-05 19:33:22 · answer #2 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
UPC is scripturally correct. There is no trinity mentioned in the bible. I cannot find any reference to it. Nobody has been able to show it to me in anything but analogy and shrouded, vague supposition. There are clear statements through all of scripture that there is only One God. Jesus is not in the Godhead, the Godhead is in Jesus
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
I was raised trinitarian, and I could never get anyone there to explain it either.
2006-09-05 19:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Angel06,
I wouldn't be quick to say that either one is right. Trinity is a word that attempts to describe the Godhead. I don't think that it's accurate, but I do think it's an attempt that is closetst. People can sure created their own error. I believe in the Holy Trinity, I just don't know what it is! lol
What I'm saying is that men much more intelligent than I am couldn't touch it after years of study, collegiate level. Those that think that they have it all figured out can be torn apart by the right college professor.
2006-09-05 19:28:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The United Pentecostal denomination does deny the Trinity, and in so doing set themselves against the teachings of the Word. Jesus Himself affirms His trinitarian Nature in Matthew 28:19, and the apostle Paul echoes this in 2 Corinthians 13:14.
Arianism is the heresy that was the beginnings of this teaching, and was refuted by Athanasius in the 3rd century AD and confirmed as Christian orthodoxy by the council of Nicea in the 4th century AD.
2006-09-05 19:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by stronzo5785 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
United Pentecostal are right. read your Bible and pray.
if the truth in God is what you seek you have found it.
trinity is not in the Bible the only number in referance to God is ONE.
Isa 43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel
Isa 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isa 41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last
and consider this I dont need 3 gods to whup one devil
2006-09-05 19:33:05 · answer #6 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has been awhile, but I once studied the United Pentecostal beliefs. I was taught that they believe that all three (the trinity) are actually all in one. They are all three an aspect of the same God. I have studied Episcopalian, too (and other religions)l and in my opinion neither of them are wrong.
2006-09-05 19:29:04 · answer #7 · answered by Bridghid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no Trinitarian teaching in the New Testement. This is a later fabrication to make Primitive Christianity more palatable to Romans who were more likely to look upon the new sect as a mystery religon.
As for Unitarians, my best freind's sister is a Unitarian minister. She says the church turned its back on Jesus's "Human Condition" in order to survive in the hostile Greco Roman enviorment.
All Hail Sol Invictus!
2006-09-07 00:22:36 · answer #8 · answered by Marisa & Laurence D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is incorrect because it denies the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Bible teaches us that "God" is 3 in person, 1 in essence. That is why there is no contradiction between the idea that Jesus can be worshipped by men and we can only worship God. Those people must believe that God the Father came down in flesh literally as Jesus and all there is is Jesus. If they bothered to listen to their God Jesus at all, they would know that he does the will of the FATHER not himself.
If they cant even get the deity of Christ correct, I shudder to think of what else they teach!
2006-09-05 19:28:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well if they are using the Holy Bible as a basis for their doctrine then they would be incorrect
Check Matthew 3:15
Check Mark 1:10-11
Check Luke 3:21-22
Check Acts 1:4
But what is more important is not what the church believe but what you have studies, prayed about and where your faith lies.
2006-09-05 19:28:56 · answer #10 · answered by freemansfox 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋