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| | Newman Reader - Arians of the 4th Century - Chapter 1-5 |
 | | Pressed, accordingly, by the authority of Scripture, the Sabellian, instead of speaking of the substantial union of God with Christ, would probably begin to obscure his meaning in the decorum of a figurative language. | | | Its peculiar tenet is the denial of the distinction of Persons in the Divine Nature; or the doctrine of the Monarchia, as it is called by an assumption of exclusive orthodoxy, like that which has led to the term "Unitarianism" at the present day [Note 1]. | | | Another school of heresy also denominated Sabellian, is obscurely discernible even earlier than the Ephesian, among the Montanists of Phrygia. |
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http://www.newmanreader.org/works/arians/chapter1-5.html
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| | Modalism - Theopedia |
| | Also known as Sabellianism, it was condemned as heresy by Dionysius, bishop of Rome (circa 262). |
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http://www.theopedia.com/Modalism
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| | SABELLIANISM (This Rock: January 1994) |
| | Sabellians explained their position by saying that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not three Persons, but three functions or modes of a single divine Person, so they also were called "Modalists." | | | These councils affirmed that God is one, but made the distinction between Person and nature, teaching that the Son and the Holy Spirit are separate Persons who share one divine nature with the Father. | | | Denial that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are separate Persons of the Godhead; claim instead that they are modes, aspects, energies, phases, or offices of a single divine Person. |
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| | Jesus Never Claimed To Be God! |
| | To some of His hearers, the statement, "I am God," would have meant that the Lord Jesus Christ was claiming to be identical to God and that He was only a man in outward appearance or semblance. | | | That Christ claimed to be fully divine is hardly open to serious dispute by those who accept the Gospels as containing a substantially true account of apostolic experience of Him. | | | He described Himself in terms of divine sonship—that was sharply distinguished from any in which His listeners could participate, and one that involved internal relations to the Father which cannot be enjoyed by created persons. |
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http://www.muhammadanism.org/Jesus/Jesus_did_not_claim.htm
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| | "The Arian Controversy - Part I" by Ronald Hanko |
| | In fact, both the Bishop of Antioch, Paul of Samosata, and the head of the School, Lucian the Martyr, had been deposed around the year 270 for their teaching that Jesus, a man, was the adopted Son of God by virtue of the power of God in Him. | | | He taught that this created Son of God, that is, the Logos, took the place of the human reasoning spirit in the man Jesus — a sort of hybrid of Sabellianism which was later called Apollinarianism. | | | It was out of this school that the Monarchian heresy arose in both of its forms (dynamic Monarchianism and Sabellianism). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monarchians |
| | All Christians hold the unity (monarchia) of God as a fundamental doctrine. | | | Basil and others call him a Libyan from Pentapolis, but this seems to rest on the fact that Pentapolis was found to be full of Sabellianism by Dionysius of Alexandria, c. | | | A number of Montanists led by Aeschines became Modalists (unless Harnack is right in making Modalism the original belief of the Montanists and in regarding Aeschines as a conservative). |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10448a.htm
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| | FAQ - BIBLE ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |
| | The Apostolics or Monarchians who use the roles/office analogy of the revealed mystery of Christ were later called Modalists or Sabellians; and then deemed heretic. | | | Stating the revealed mystery of Christ, that he is God, was no longer enough because monotheistic Judaism was lost and “distinct persons” was introduced. | | | The first church, which were mainly 'Jews', upheld no doctrine of the Trinity before or after Christ; and so did the generations that followed - until the apologists. |
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http://www.threeq.com/faq/faq408.html
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| | Monarchianism, Sabellianism, Patripassianism, Modalism |
| | In its most general sense monarchianism (also called patripassianism or Sabellianism) refers to the primarily Western attempts in the third century to defend monotheism against suspected tritheism by denying the personal distinctiveness of a divine Son and Holy Spirit in contrast to God the Father. | | | This doctrine was taught by the Roman Christian prelate Sabellius and is thus sometimes referred to as Sabellianism. | | | Praxeas attempted to soften this charge by making a distinction between the Christ who is the Father and the Son who was simply a man. In this way the Father cosuffers with the human Jesus. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/monarchi.htm
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| | In other words, John is not teaching the ancient heresy known as Sabellianism, which taught that Jesus and the Father and the Spirit are simply three different aspects of one person, i.e., Jesus is the Father, the Father is the Spirit, and so on. | | | By the simple ommission of the article ("the", or in Greek, ho) before the word for God in the last phrase, John avoids teaching Sabellianism, while by placing the word where it is in the clause, he defeats another heresy, Arianism, which denies the true Deity of the Lord Jesus. | | | Those who would assert that the Logos is to be identified with all of God (i.e., Jesus is the Father and the Father is Jesus - Sabellianism) find an insuperable problem here. |
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http://aomin.org/JOHN1_1.html
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| | Sabellianism: Named for the second-century Sabellius, Sabellianism or Modalistic Monarchianism, also known as Patripassianism, teaches that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are but different modes or manifestations of the one God, not independent Persons in the Trinitarian sense. | | | Rapture: In Eschatology, this is the doctrine that believers will be gathered together with Christ at or shortly before his return. |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/openhse/glossary.html
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| | Jesus Only or Oneness, Pentecostal Movement |
| | Sabellius taught that God was one Person, not three, and that He appeared in "modes" or "manifestations" - as the Father, as the Son, or as the Holy Spirit. | | | One of the most subtle forms of doctrinal deviation ever to infiltrate the Christian Church was known as Sabellianism (named after Sabellius, a Latin theologian of the third century). | | | McAlister, a Canadian evangelist, exhorted during a baptismal service that the apostles baptized not in the Triune formula (i.e., in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost), but in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.biblefacts.org/cult/oneness.html
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| | bibleteacher.org: Cultic Related Studies - Dcult |
| | The Christian Monotheists teach that the doctrine of the Trinity is an evil heresy that the Protestant Church imported from the Catholic faith. | | | I began visiting different local Churches, and this is when I was exposed to Christian Monotheism (modalism, Sabellianism, Oneness Pentecostalism). | | | Now, just within the past two weeks, I received a letter from another Christian who pompously told me that he had numerous Seminary degrees from various learned institutions, a thousand book theological library, and then went on to upbraid me for using "non-standard terminology to address heresy". |
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http://www.bibleteacher.org/Dm077.htm
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| | The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit |
| | The doctrine of the Trinity certainly does not teach that there are “three Gods.” Instead we look to the scriptures and see several truths that are best summarized or articulated in the doctrine of “trinity”. | | | The view you are espousing seems to be that of Modalism or Monarchianism (also known as Sabellianism). | | | It's interesting to me how often ancient heresies are repackaged and revived. |
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http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/articles/discussion.asp?id=1320244
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| | What Happened After Arius? |
| | But with the Blasphemy of Sirmium, the more moderate theologians began show themselves from among their ranks 38 and reacted strongly against the Anomoeans attack on the Son's divinity. | | | 45 With this proposal, the Homoiousians affirmed that the Son is to be considered next to the Father, not as a mere created being; but at the same time they avoided being misunderstood as Sabellians because they stressed a distinction between the Father and the Son. | | | 14 The main charge, that of heresy, originated in Eustathius' emphasis of God's unity which led to accusations of Sabellianism. |
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http://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/arian.htm
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| | Newman Reader - Heresy of Apollinaris |
| | [Thus Arianism and Sabellianism, though diametrically opposed to each other in a drawn-out scheme of doctrine, substantially agree together, and are contrary to the Catholic Faith, inasmuch as the True Faith asserts or admits the existence of mysteries in any human view of the Divine Nature, and both heresies virtually deny it. | | | For they are all opposed to the one Truth, and are thereby a negation of those ultimate principles of thought, on which that Truth rests; and thus really, one and all are ranged on one line over against the Truth alone, which seems at first sight to lie between them. | | | Again, the Platonic doctrine of the Logos [endiathetos] and [prophorikos], the Word conceived in the mind and the Word spoken, a Divine attribute and a Divine energy, leads either to Sabellianism or to Arianism;—to Sabellianism, since the Divine Word, Endiathetic, is not a Person; to Arianism, since the Personal Word, Prophoric, is not strictly Divine. |
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http://www.newmanreader.org/works/tracts/apollinaris.html
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| | All the Nicean Creed had said on the Holy Spirit was, “I believe in the Holy Spirit.” Sabellianism was not dead either, which saw the Holy Spirit simply as a mode of God’s manifestation. | | | At the First Council of Constantinople, the church refuted semi-Arianism, Macedonianism and Sabellianism as heresy. | | | After the death of Athanasius, three very prominent men came to the fore to defend the orthodox Christian Faith: Basil of Caesarea; Gregory of Naziansuz; and Gregory of Nyssa. |
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http://www.thirdmill.org/files/english/html/ch/CH.h.Arnold.CH.14.html
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| | UPCI Men's Ministry Forum - Oneness |
| | Sabellius, while a oneness believer, taught that God was a single monad that existed as the Father throughout the Old Testament. | | | Therefore I reject Sabelliansim as being part of my belief system. |
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http://www.upci.org/am/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1608&whichpage=2
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| | Arius and the deity of Christ |
| | The Church rejected Sabellianism because, among other things, it failed to preserve the personal relationships between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, so prevalent in the New Testament. | | | His view, of one sort or another, was quite popular in the early church, because it offered a way of believing in the deity of Christ while preserving the oneness of God. | | | Sabellianism is also known as Modalism (3 different modes of the same God), and Monarchianism (one rule of God through different roles). |
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http://www.tecmalta.org/tft340.htm
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| | When it is said that the First Person of the Holy Trinity communicates divinity to the Second, it is meant that that one Essence which is the Father, also is the Son. | | | It must not be supposed from these instances that the Fathers meant that our Lord was literally what is called the attribute of reason or wisdom in the Divine Essence, or in other words, that He was God merely viewed as He is wise; which would be a kind of Sabellianism. | | | But, whereas their opponents said that He was but called Word and Wisdom after the attribute (vid. |
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http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-04/footnote/fn54.htm
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| | Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Eusebius of Nicomedia used this fear of Sabellianism to persuade Constantine to return Arius to his duties in Alexandria. | | | Athanasius, chief defender of the Nicene formula, was bishop in Alexandria, and conflict was inevitable. | | | The council condemned Arianism, but the Greek term homoousios [consubstantial, of the same substance] used by the council to define the Son's relationship to the Father was not universally popular: it had been used before by the heretic Sabellius. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/printable.aspx?id=1E1:Arianism
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| | MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM |
| | Modalistic elements such as the literal oneness of the Godhead, the Father becoming the Son, and patripassianism are clearly expressed in the Book of Mormon. | | | The Book of Mormon therefore violates a major tenet of trinitarianism by confusing the persons of the Father and Son and by referring to Jesus as the Father. | | | However, such ambiguities do suggest that the view of God which comes closest to that of the Book of Mormon is modalism or Sabellianism. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~research/central/resth2.htm
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| | Heresy Index |
| | Patripassianism Since the Father and the Son were seen as one, the Father and the Son suffered the passion of the cross including death. | | | He taught that the Son of God did not exist before the incarnation. | | | Sabellianism, Modalism Sabellius, a priest, denied the trinity in his teachings that God is three only in name to the world, in three modes or titles. |
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http://www.communityofconcern.org/Theology/heresies.htm
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| | Sabellianism, the doctrine that the Persons of the Trinity are roles that a single divine being plays either simultaneously or successively, is commonly thought to entail that the Father is the Son. | | | University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, USA |
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http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/sophia/vol41no2/baber.html
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| | Socinianism is also known as Psilanthropism, holding that Jesus was just a nice guy, do gooder, "philanthropist". | | | The teachings or belief systems listed in this section have traditionally been considered false teachings and doctrines. | | | Sabellianism as in modalistic monarchianism teaches that God is in essence one entity, not three. |
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http://spiritualcornerstones.com/Heresy.htm
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| | This, of course, implies that Jesus Christ was purely divine, without humanness, and therefore could not truly have suffered or died. | | | What follows are eight heresies, ranging from sects that see Jesus Christ as purely divine, to others which see him as purely human. | | | Docetism: The name comes from the Greek word dokesis, meaning "to seem." Along the same lines as Sabellianism, Docetism says that Christ was not a real human being and did not have a real human body. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/heresies.html
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| | New Covenant Church of God: The Trinity Page 1-5. Conclusion |
| | Not by postulating three Gods (Mormonism), since the Bible is emphatically monotheistic. | | | Though we cannot finally say what the Godhead is in the ultimate sense, we can certainly say what it is not - polytheism, unitarianism, Arianism, Sabellianism, etc. - and that, surely, is a major step in the right direction for anyone seeking to be true to the biblical revelation. | | | Not as a single God playing three parts at different times (Dynamic Modalism, Sabellianism or Monarchism). |
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| | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IV |
| | Those who, while rejecting Arianism, would avoid Sabellianism, must accept the eternal divine Generation of the Son.§§6, 7. | | | The concluding portion, §§26-36, turns the argument of §24, that Scripture declares the identity of Son and Word, against those who (adopting alternative (a) supra) drift from Marcellianism toward the Samosatene rather than toward the Sabellian position (on the connection of the two see Prolegg. | | | In §§13, 14, he examines the (Marcellian, not Sabellian) doctrine of |
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http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-04/Npnf2-04-61.htm
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| | THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ETERNAL GENERATION DOCTRINE |
| | R. Franks pointed out that "although Barth thus speaks of the Mode of the Divine Being, he says that his doctrine is not Modalism, by which he here means not historical Sabellianism, but the 'Sabellianism' of Schleiermacher." | | | His perception of generation also follows the orthodox conception of derivation: "But if the Son proceeded from the Father alone, then this has to be conceived of both as a begetting and as a birth." | | | Accordingly, everyone who believes in the Triune God as "one" Person, individual, subject, or personality is a Sabellian modalist in its traditional sense. |
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| | The Taboric Light - Byzantine Forum Posts |
| | As I understand St. Gregory Palamas' teaching, God's existence is tri-hypostatic, and so to identify essence and existence in God would ultimately lead to a form of Sabellianism. | | | The Byzantine Theological Tradition does not identify God's Essence with His Existence | | | Thus, in order to defend the dogma of the Trinity of hypostases in God, Palamas holds that God's essence, existence ( |
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http://www.geocities.com/apotheoun/byzantine
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| | The doublethink of the "trinity" is not found in the Bible, but instead was invented to reconcile Jewish monotheism with Jesus' idiosyncratic Sonship claims. | | | various 4th-century Roman emperors, there waxed and waned such christological heresies as Ebionism, Docetism, Adoptionism, Dynamic Monarchianism, Sabellianism, Arianism, Marcionism, Apollonarianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, and Monothelitism. |
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| | In CHRISTIANITY the Sabbath became SUNDAY which was to commemorate the RESURRECTION of CHRIST. | | | SABELLIANISM: an early CHRISTIAN HERESY which insisted on the unity of the Godhead by arguing that the persons of the TRINITY were actually different modes or operations of GOD. |
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http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/concise/WORDS-S.html
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| | Oneness Pentecostals |
| | There are many popular and prolific preachers on the airwaves that propagate the Oneness idea of God (e.g., Trinity Broadcasting Network [TBN] features one of the most recognized Oneness preachers, T. Jakes of the | | | below); regrettably, the ancient theological heresy of Sabellianism has been resurrected from Swedenborg to the present. | | | 5 Called “Sabellianism” named after the heretic Sabellius who came to Rome and taught it at the beginning of the third century. |
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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: The Suffering of the Impassible God |
| | Keywords: Arian, Arianism, christology, Cyril of Alexandria, divine emotions, Docetic, Docetism, impassibility, incarnation, kenosis, Nestorian controversy, Nestorius, Patripassianism, Sabellianism, self-emptying, suffering of God | | | Gavrilyuk construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the incarnation. |
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http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/religion/0199269823/toc.html
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| | Part 1, Chapter 6, Systematic Theology -- Charles Hodge |
| | But as that word properly means the face, the aspect, and as it was used by the Sabellians to express their doctrine of the threefold aspect under which the Godhead was revealed, it was rejected, and the word | | | Calvin was accused by some of his contemporaries of teaching the incompatible doctrines of Sabellianism and Arianism. | | | If, however, the essential quality of the Word be considered, in so far as He is one God with the Father, whatever can be said concerning God may also be applied to Him the Second Person in the glorious Trinity. |
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| | Believersweb |
| | Sabellianism: Third and Twentieth Century Heresy by Branch, Rick in category Cults / Sects / Non Christian Religions and Topics | | | An article about Sabellianism, an early heresy that can also be found in many present day cults. | | | Please look at the list below to see if your document is listed. |
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| | The Bible Answer Man Has Three Gods |
| | I would urge him to go to the Bible and take out of it what it actually says, and not to read into it the historic controversies. | | | It seems the Answer Man is more strongly influenced by the fear of being called Sabellian than by the desire to discover what the Word of God actually says. | | | This is indicated by his radio statement that to say, “ ‘The Word was the God with whom He was’ would be actually Sabellianism.” John 1:1 does not lend itself to Sabellianism, for Sabellius contended that the three of the Godhead did not exist simultaneously. |
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| | Arius, who would allow no intermediary being between the supremacy of the One God and his creatures, denied the full deity of Christ. | | | This incipient subordinationism, especially that of Origen, eventually led to Arianism and other systems such as Sabellianism, Monarchianism, and Macedonianism. | | | Justin Martyr, Origen, and Tertullian all evidence a certain amount of subordinationism in their writings. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/subordin.htm
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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: The Suffering of the Impassible God |
| | The church's rejection of various forms of Patripassianism led to a sharper distinction between the Father and the Son. | | | The author shows that of all theologians charged with Patripassianism or Sabellianism, only Noetus held strict Patripassianism, i.e. | | | Keywords: Callistus, Hippolytus, Noetus, Patripassianism, Praxeas, Sabellianism, Sabellius, sympaschein, Tertullian |
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| | THE MAN, HIS MINISTRY, AND HIS MOVEMENT: ... T.D. JAKES - Contending For The Faith |
| | Whether it is called modalism, Sabellianism, Oneness, or “Jesus only,&; this view of the Trinity is heretical. | | | As White observes, “Whatever its name might be, it is a denial of the Trinity based upon the denial of the distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. | | | Denver Seminary’s Dr. Gordon Lewis offered this response to T. Jakes’s statement about God being Triune in His manifestation: “The revised statement on God revives Sabellian Modalism. |
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http://www.myworkplaceministry.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID236518CHID438620CIID1016140,00.html
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| | NOTES ON THE HOLY TRINITY |
| | The denial that the divine persons are distinct is called Sabellianism ( | | | The following illustration is imperfect, but, in spite of its failures, it has advantages over those already mentioned. | | | 198 - 220 A.D. The three states of water (solid, liquid, gas) also illustrate Sabellianism because a given quantity of water does not exist in all three states at the same time. |
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