Is The Oneness Pentecostal Church BIBLICAL?

In this video, we dive deep into the three major doctrinal errors of Oneness Pentecostalism: their denial of the Trinity, the requirement of speaking in tongues for salvation, and their belief that baptism is essential for salvation.

Each of these issues has significant theological implications that deviate from mainstream Christian teaching. Watch till the end to understand why these errors are critical and how they contrast with Biblical scripture.

00:00 Introduction to Oneness Pentecostalism
00:49 Problem 1: Denial of the Trinity
03:37 Problem 2: Speaking in Tongues for Salvation
07:12 Problem 3: Baptism Requirements
12:12 Conclusion and Call to Action

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[jbld]

Thank you for differentiating Oneness vs Trinitarian Pentecostals. As a trinitarian pentacostal I've have people tell me I believe in oneness and must speak in tongues to be saved which I've never heard in our church. We certainly believe in the trinity and do believe in speaking in tongues, but it is only a gift of the Holy Spirit, but by no means needed for salvation. It only only through the blood of Christ that our sins have been washed away and been made clean.

[Bibleellie-jfxg]

I like your videos very much, because God gave you such a wisdom to explain every aspect of Christian Faith!
Thank you so much for your ministry to the Lord Jesus Christ! ❤️🙏✝️

[danthemanbardo]

Thanks for dividing the onest Pentecostal movement with regular pentecostal. I've had bapstist friends have so much assumptions about stuff when in reality our services were not even that different.

[theluarUZ]

Thanks for answering my question about the tongues and other spiritual gifts 🙏

[jobeedrost]

I appreciate your response and spreading awareness about this topic. I was excited to see this video pop up, as I’m very passionate about it and don’t see as many people talking about it.

I do have some critiques that I hope will be taken as constructive coming from a former Oneness Pentecostal.

In your section on the denial of the Trinity, I’d say you did well in representing their view and rebutting it. One aspect that was missing for me, was their view of the distinction between Jesus and the Father being a distinction between His Divinity (Father) and humanity (Jesus). They say, as all Christians do, that Jesus is fully God and fully man. Therefore, they say he would sometimes act as a man (praying, eating, limited knowledge) and sometimes as God (forgiving sins, healing, knowing peoples thoughts). This is a key part in their defence of their Oneness view and not mentioning or addressing it does leave some weak points in your rebuttal. I understand you can’t address everything in a brief video, but this is a big part of their theology.

Second, your section on speaking in tongues did well to represent their view and rebut it as well. I appreciated you making sure to say that they believe that tongues is salvific “in the sense that it is a sign of salvation.” That is the fairest way of putting it while still explaining the problems with it. The only part I’d say was weaker, was saying that the tongues in Acts is different than the tongues that Oneness have. We know there are earthly languages in Acts, and I’d argue mostly earthly. But there is a case that could be made for unknown or heavenly languages from other verses in the NT. That being said, I would focus more on the fact that not everyone in Acts spoke in tongues when receiving the Holy Spirit, and that this requirement is never outlined in scripture.

Lastly, I’d say the section of baptism was the weakest. I think you missed the main reason why Oneness Pentecostals are distinct from the broader Christian world in this regard. When it comes to the view that baptism is salvific, this is not uniquely Oneness. Many denominations believe in some sort of baptismal regeneration, or that baptism saves. Oneness Pentecostals believe the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the name of Jesus, since they see it as only one name. They believe baptizing in the name of Jesus in Acts is the fulfilment of Jesus’ instructions in Matthew 28:19. This of course ties into their view of the Trinity, and the fact that they think Jesus is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That is the main difference and what separates them from the rest of Christendom, and I wish you spent more time addressing and responding to that.

One other thing I wanted to mention, is another big distinction is their holiness standards, and how they can be seen as salvific in some cases. These standards are not unique to Oneness, but do exist in other Holiness groups. I’m mentioning it because it’s a big part of their theology and identity.

Several of these issues are addressed by Michael R. Burgos. He has a smaller channel but really good videos diving into these topics in great detail.

Thanks again for talking about this, and I hope you and anyone reading this finds this comment helpful.

[MsJonellovesJesus]

I'm so happy you made this video explanation.

[generalchrome]

I love your method of presentation. You make a great case for our faith, and I’m here for it.

God bless, brother.

[samsam-qpfw]

Hello Oneness Pentecoastal here.
1. 1 Timothy 2:5 does not prove a distinction of persons because it specifies the MAN Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ was not only fully a man but fully God. According to 2 Corinthians 5:19, God was in Christ Jesus, reconciling the world unto Himself. Clearly there is a distinction between humanity and deity in the person of Jesus Christ. This is not deity to deity distinction. As for John 17:3, the entire context of it is that Jesus is praying. According to Hebrews 5:7, Jesus Christ prayed in the days of His flesh. He did not pray eternally as a second person of the Trinity; only in the flesh. This is because He was still fully man and had to do all things a man should do as a creation of God. The body was created, but the Spirit of Christ, which is the Spirit of God according to Romans 8, was eternal. Therefore, this is not deity praying to deity but humanity praying to deity. Otherwise, Jesus Christ is a lesser god and subordinate to the Father, and this is not what the Bible teaches. The next 2 verses align with 1 Peter 1:18-21, wherein it was already foreordained before the existence of the world. Since God is outside of time, I don't see how it is wrong to say that He could see Himself manifesting in the flesh to save humanity. He knew that men would fall to sin and so He already had the perfect plan to save us. Through the Son, he created the world. We can't say that there was a Son apart from the Father during creation, for the Old Testament proclaims that one individual Being created us, who is YHWH our Father. Malachi 2:10. Jesus wasn't crucified literally, nor begotten before creation, or did the man Jesus exist to have glory before creation. God by definition does not need to pray, and so Jesus spoke as a man. For the two witnesses, this does not testify to a Trinity. First of all, if a person holds that the two witnesses were separate persons in a trinity, he would need to explain why Jesus did not clarify that there were three (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) for the law asked for three if possible. The two witnesses were the Spirit of God and the man Christ, and both testified that He was God in the flesh. Not distinct persons. He then proceeded to say that He is the I am of the Old Testament in the later verses.
The Bible not only says that we have one God, but that God is one.

2. Baptism of the Holy Spirit is accompanied by the initial sign of tongues. Mark 16:17. There are 5 historical accounts of receiving the Holy Spirit in the NT, 3 of which describe speaking in tongues as the initial evidence of receiving the Spirit. Tongues are implicit in the other two accounts. In Acts 8 there was an unnamed miraculous sign that indicated the exact moment the Samaritans received the Spirit. Paul described his experience in Acts 9 without an exact description, however in Corinthians 14 he said he spoke in tongues often.

3. We do not say that Matthew 28:19 is invalid. This is wrong and whoever said that does not understand why we baptize in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus commanded the disciples to baptize in one name, therefore one being. Jesus literally means Jehovah-saves, or He is our Salvation. According to Zechariah 14:9, that name of God would be one. The Apostles understood what Jesus meant when He said to baptize in the name of the FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT. The name is Jesus Christ, as implied in the other Gospels wherein one of them said to proclaim His name while preaching repentance. The name is Jesus Christ, and Matthew himself endorsed this by standing with Peter during Acts 2:38. (i'd also like to note that there is no Scripture that says the Apostles baptized in the word for word Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They did all things in Jesus name)

The work of baptism does not save you (because it is by the shedding of the blood that wee are saved), it is what leads you to be baptized is what saves. This is obedience. If you truly believe and put your faith in Jesus Christ, you will obey His word.

1 Peter 3:20-21
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, ) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

[callfeestayns]

I'm an Apostolic Pentecostal, and on the issue of tongues, it’s more so the link to the power in the gifts of the spirit that come from it. The same goes for baptism and Peter telling the people to repent and be baptized in Jesus name, although I do think if you plan to thoroughly live out your life in Christ you should be baptized in Jesus' name as said in Acts 2:38. As to where is says “ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” Why anyone wouldn’t want spiritual power is beyond me.

[perfectchaos_official]

The salvation of many will be on your hands.

[blissseeker]

Can you explain these?

Colossians 2:8-11
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

John 14:6-11

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

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>Isaiah 9:6
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

[evanchrisgift]

I appreciate you brotha. This video came right on time. Thank You Jesus!!🙌🏾

[confidence]

Thanks brother keep the good work going ❤❤

[AmitKumarVerma_indian]

Proud Oneness Pentecostal from India..❤️🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳✝️🕊🙏🏻
God said I am in Old Testament
Jesus Said I am He in New Testament.❤✝️🕊
One Lord, one faith, one baptism” Ephesians 4:5

[EugenioCarmo]

Ryan. How do you respond to 1 Corinthians 14:2? Does not say that speaking in tongues is a language that man cannot understand it? It’s not likely Spanish or Hebrew because these languages can be understood by humans. As we see in 1 Corinthians 14, speaking in tongues requires a profetic word from God so the church knows what’s is about it. Note the text doesn’t say to bring a translator to church so it can be correctly interpreted. In case of Acts 2, the Holy Spirit is the one who interpreted and revealed the meaning of the words spoken by the people. What do you think?

[prenze]

Please do one on the Iglesia ni Cristo

[theluarUZ]

Catholicism: work-base salvation
Oneness pentecostal: tongues-base salvation or spiritual gift salvation. 😅

[Weavileiscool]

As a Pentacostal I reject these people

[Dividing_Line]

Two people can learn Hebrew or some other language and verify one another. A false message as a fake sign. Tongues will decline. Know the Word of God since a “prophet” can lead you to a different god.

[SaigaSlug]

Jesus is called the Everlasting Father in Isaiah 9:6