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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 2:12 I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet [in the congregation]. |
Bible Question: What is the major difference in trinity and oneness? Do Trinitarians actaully believe there are three Gods? The last time I heard Charles Stanley teach on Trinity he sounded "oneness"! So what is the difference? |
Bible Answer: Trinitarians and "Oneness" adherents both believe in one God. They also both believe that The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are clearly identified as God in Scripture. Where Trinitarians and modalists part ways is here: Trinitarians assert that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, while each being fully God, are three distinct "persons." That is, the Father exists simultaneously with the Son and the Holy Spirit, meaning the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Spirit, and the Spirit is not the Father. Onesness folks deny this, saying that the Father is the Son and the Holy Spirit (usually claiming that Jesus is all three), and that God just acts in different roles or "modes" at different times. It is not an insignificant controversy, as some on this forum seem to have suggested. We are talking about the very nature of who God is, and one's entire theology stems from his/her understanding of the nature of God. So, Oneness states "One God, three roles." Trinitarianism declares "One God, three persons each of whom is fully God, and distinct roles for each person of the Trinity (even though there is cooperation among them all in creation and salvation)." I have yet to have any "oneness" follower satisfactorily explain away Jesus' references to the Father as distinct from himself, simultaneous manifestations of all three, God the Father's references to Jesus as distinct from himself, Jesus' references to the Spirit as being distinct from himself, the fact that the Son is the mediator between the Father and Christians, the fact that "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us" (1 Corinthians 5:21), etc., etc. The fact is that the early church councils who codified the term "Trinity" were not inventing some heresy, but articulating what God reveals about himself in the whole of Scripture. The Bible teaches the Trinity, and any deviation from this doctrine leads to heresy and cultism. --Joe! |