"MarYah deception" ???

[ScorpioSniper2]

I am a Oneness Pentecostal and I'd like to state that we do teach a distinction between the Father and Son. The Father, in Oneness theology, refers to God's existence beyond the incarnation as an unlimited Spirit. The Son, refers to God's existence as a genuine Man, namely Jesus Christ (or Yeshua Maschiyach). "Jesus Only" is not an accurate description of what we believe, because this assumes that God existed nowhere else except in Christ (which is very flawed). Unlike the Nestorians, we do not teach teach that the two natures of Christ (unfallen human and divine) are separate, but united. Many Oneness Pentecostals (like UPC theologian David K. Bernard) teach a rather Nestorian sounding view of Christ (describing the distinction between the Father and Son as a distinction between the divine and human natures of Christ. Modalism differs from the Oneness doctrine in the sense that we acknowledge the distinctions (or some of us do LOL), while the Modalists did not.

Trinitarians understand the Father, Son and Spirit to be separate Persons in the Godhead, which is sorely misdefined by this theology. The Godhead refers to God's attributes, not to a container of the Trinity. The only thing that really separates the Trinity doctrine from polytheism is the fact that it says that these three Persons are of one essence (or are in the one Godhead). This doctrine teaches that God has always been a plural entity, yet one God, while we understand God to be a singular entity and to be one God.