Hello everybody, it's me, Mr. Tal23, back in the video. In this video I'll be
addressing the false doctrine which was historically known as Sibelionism, but
which is also known as Modalism, Monarchianism, or Oneness, as taught by
the Oneness Pentecostal, which is a large denomination of several million people
that exist today. Now, this doctrine of Modalism rejects the biblical Trinity in
favor of a trinity of three different forms, not three persons or individuals.
So instead of teaching that there is one God but three individuals, the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit, modalists believe that there is one God who is
also one person, and that this person manifests himself in three different
forms. And this was a major heresy back in the early church in the early third
century, which arose among people such as Sibelius, Noatus, and Praxius, which taught
that Jesus is the Father made flesh. Now, in modern-day Modalism, specifically in
Oneness Pentecostalism, and even some Baptist churches which are accepting
this teaching in the last few years, they believe that Jesus is the one person
and that Jesus is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that he just manifests
himself in these three different modes or these three different forms. But this
is entirely false and the Bible does not teach this whatsoever. It shows a clear
separation of persons. Jesus is not the Father, Jesus is not the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Spirit is not the Father, and so on. But they're all one God of the Bible. Now
let me show you this from Scripture. It says, or first I want to start off with
an important verse in the Bible because it's important to the gospel, to
understanding the gospel, and literally one of the most well-known verses in the
Bible. It's John 3 16, it says, For God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting
life. Now think about this, how could God give his Son if there's only one person
if God is his Son? Okay, that's what the modals teach. The answer is
there isn't. This isn't possible. He couldn't give his Son. God the Father
sent the Son to be born into the world. Okay, so it's God the Father, God sent his
only begotten Son. Just two different persons. In Matthew chapter 3 verse 16
17 says, And Jesus when he was baptized went up straight away out of the water
and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending
like a dove and lighting upon him and lo a voice from heaven saying, This is my
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this first we see an example of
three being present at the baptism. Jesus is on earth, he's being baptized in the
water while the Holy Spirit is descending upon him and while the Father
speaks from heaven. Now if modalism were true this still wouldn't make any sense
because somebody is identifying Jesus as the Son and that's God in heaven, God the
Father. As the oneness people that the term Son of God which is used of Jesus
Christ many times that has no real meaning. Okay, so because to them Jesus
isn't really the Son of God. He is God. He is God the Father. So he's not the Son of
the Father. He's not the Son of God. He is just God and there's God in three
persons. That's God in three forms. That's what they think Jesus is.
Obviously this makes no sense to say that Jesus can be both his own Father
and his own Son since the Bible identifies two distinct individuals. I
want to discuss a few verses that that use plural pronouns when referring to
God. Because the big thing with the oneness people is that God is
called one God throughout the scriptures therefore they assume that that must be
only one person. But the Bible says in John 14 23, Jesus answered and said unto
him, If a man love me he will keep my words and my father will love him and we
will come unto him and make our boat with them. Now if Jesus is the same
person as the Father then how could he say we because we is a plural pronoun it
you can only say we if there's more than one person. In Genesis 1 26 it says, And
God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have
dominion over the officials seeing over the fowl of the air and over the cattle
and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth. And then in Genesis 3 22 it says, And the Lord God said, Behold the man has
become as one of us to no good and evil. In Genesis 11 7 it says, Go to let us go
down and therefore are there confound their language that they may not
understand one another speech. And then in Isaiah chapter 6 verse 8 it says,
Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and whom will
go for us? Then said I, Here am I send me. So there are plenty of verses in the
Bible which use plural pronouns such as us and we and our when it says that the
Lord is speaking or says that God is speaking. That's because there are at
least two persons, the Father and the Son. They're separate people, they're separate
individuals, they're not just the same. Now it says in 2nd John chapter 1 verse 3,
Grace be with you mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus
Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love. So Jesus literally is the Son
of God in the respect that he is the Son of the Father because the Father is God
so because he's the Son of the Father he is the Son of God. Okay he is the Son
of the Most High, the Almighty, Yehovah. He is not one in the same as the Father.
The Bible also shows several key verses which distinguish between the
Father and the Son such as John 5 22 which says, For the Father judgeth no man
and hath committed all judgment unto the Son. Now again if the Son
were the same person of the Father this verse makes no sense and neither does
John 17 where Jesus prays to the Father. Okay it says in John 17 verse 1 to 3,
These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father the
hour is come glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify thee as thou hast
given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as
thou hast given him and this is life eternal that they might know thee the
only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Okay and also Jesus prays
in Matthew chapter 26 just before his arrest but in John chapter 17 Jesus said
in verse 3 that thou hast sent so he's acknowledging again what John 3 16 says
the fact that he's saying that thee who he's talking to which would be God the
Father which would be a different person than himself is the only true God and
that he sent Jesus Christ. It's very clear Ephesians chapter 1 verse 17 to 20
says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto
you the spirit of wisdom and revelation of knowledge of him the eyes of your
understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling
and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints and what is
the exceeding greatness of his power to us were to believe according to the
working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him
from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. Again
if they're the same person how can one be at the right hand of the other? The
Bible makes it clear that Jesus ascended to be at the right hand of the Father
that he is literally right next to the Father who is above all. Now this ties in
with another very important passage which I think is one of the best verses
in the Bible for disproving modalism it's Matthew chapter 20 verse 23 it says
and he saith unto them you shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with
the baptism that I am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left
is not mine to give but it shall be given to them to whom it to whom it is
prepared of my Father. So Jesus is saying that the gift of being on his right
hand or on his left is not his to give but it's something that the Father gives.
Okay now again this would make any sense if modalism was was true it would make
any sense if Jesus was the Father and if there was only one person in the Godhead
because if this were true then Jesus would be a liar because this is not a
true statement. Okay if Jesus were the Father then it would be a lie to say
it's not mine to give but the fact of the matter is the Bible declares Jesus
as perfectly sinless okay he was tempted at all points as we are and yet without
sin so he was not lying lying is a sin okay the Bible says that all liars will
end up in the lake of fire so to say that Jesus was so to say that Jesus is
the Father would make him a liar in this passage where he says it's not mine to
give it's the Father's to give okay it truly is not his to give because he is
not the Father very simple I want to go over another doctrine which is very
clear in Scripture and that is that nobody can see God the Father the Bible
says Exodus chapter 33 verse 20 and he said thou canst not see my face for
there shall no man see me and live John 1 18 no man hath seen God at any time
the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him
John 6 46 not that any man hath seen the Father safe he which is of God he has
seen the Father and then first John 4 12 no man has seen God at any time if we
love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is
perfected in us and then first Timothy 6 16 who only hath immortality dwelling
in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see
to whom be honor and power everlasting amen now notice that in Exodus chapter
33 verse 20 the person speaking said no man can see me so he's using personal
pronouns the modalist doctrine teaches that one God is one person and that
Jesus is the Father so we can already see that nobody can ever see God which
would be the Father or nobody ever has seen him nor can they see him but the
Bible says concerning Jesus in 1st Corinthians 15 6 after that he was seen
of above 500 brethren at once of whom the greater part remained into this
present but some are falling asleep John 20 29 Jesus saith unto them Thomas
because thou hast seen me thou hast believed blessed are they that have not
seen and yet have believed Matthew chapter 24 verse 30 and then shall appear
the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth
mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with
power and great glory so it's obvious that Jesus was seen by many people I
mean that's the only thing that makes sense obviously Jesus didn't go around
preaching the gospel invisible okay people weren't just falling around an
invisible man saying oh I wonder where he went okay it was an actual person he
was an actual man on earth people saw him now first John 4 12 and first
Timothy 6 16 was written after Jesus of ministry okay a few decades after his
ministry so and in those epistles they say no man has seen him or nobody has
seen God in any time that's because it's referring to God the father and not the
son of God Jesus Christ therefore since Jesus was seen and the Bible says that
nobody has ever seen the father Jesus is not the father it's simple to say
otherwise is to contradict clear scripture it's not only that but in the
Old Testament you have the instances in a Genesis chapter 32 and judges 13 when
a man appears to Jacob and to Manoah and both of them claim that they've seen
the face of God obviously the Bible says that nobody can see the face of the
father so that means only one thing that there's another person who is the true
God who is also the true God who was seen by Jacob Noah and that's Jesus okay
one of the things that makes it so difficult for modals to accept the
biblical Trinity is the inability to wrap their head or to understand the
idea that one God could be three persons because they think well isn't
the definition of God an individual being and I say no and here's why this
comes purely from paganism okay because since all pagan gods are false gods
since there's only one true God that's the God of the Bible we can't define the
term God by how the pagans define it the only true God is the God of the Bible so
therefore we can only see what God is or what God means based on what the Bible
says and the Bible shows us that fought that the father is God shows us that
the dead Jesus was God and John 1 1 1 Timothy 3 16 Hebrews 1 8 and that the
Holy Spirit is God in Acts chapter 5 Jesus said I am the father are one now
clearly this just means that they're one God that they're united that they're
united in purpose and nature it does not mean that they're one person he does not
say I'm one person because then the statement wouldn't make any sense he
couldn't say I am the father he would have just said I am the father but he
didn't he said I and the father are one now the idea of there being more than
one individual being being a single entity is taught in other places of
Scripture because the Bible says in Genesis chapter 2 verse 24 therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife
and they shall be one flesh mark chapter 10 verse 7 8 for this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one
flesh so then they are no more twain but one flesh so even though they're two
individuals even though a man and his wife are clearly different persons okay
you can't say once somebody gets married that they're the same exact person
they're still two different individuals they're still twain but when they're
married they are one flesh so that's just as even though there are three
persons there's only one God there's two persons who are one flesh three persons
who are one God so it's not conch and I've never heard anybody try to refute
that the idea of Amanda's wife being one flesh that's clear in biblical
doctrine nobody argues about that so if you accept that you would have to also
accept the fact that it's possible for three persons to be one God this is a
clear biblical doctrine there's no evidence whatsoever that Jesus is the
father the best they have is the is the statement that Jesus or that God is one
so thank you everybody for watching I hope this explains this doctrine clearly
because it's very important the Bible says that whoever denies that Jesus is a
son this isn't an exact quote but it says somewhere in the epistles in the
epistles of John that whoever denies that Jesus is the Son of God he is not
saved that they that they are not born of God they do not have God and the
modalists deny that Jesus is the Son of God because they believe that Jesus is
the Father so they don't believe that Jesus is the Son of the Father and
therefore the Son of God so they're denying that clear biblical teaching
which is just hammered in all throughout the New Testament they are not saved so
thank you buddy for watching and goodbye