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Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity QUOTES

1 " Paul preaches in a similar fashion (Acts 16:31). Indeed, Paul tells us that he rarely baptized people at all, since this was not his calling (1 Cor. 1:15–17). It would, I think, be quite impossible to see how this could be if he or anyone else believed there was a direct causal relationship between baptism and divine forgiveness. How could an apostle of Christ not be called to bring people into a forgiven relationship with the Father? The "

― Gregory A. Boyd , Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity

2 " Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond "

― Gregory A. Boyd , Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity

3 " The doctrine of the Trinity simply states that God fully exists in three personally distinct ways. "

― Gregory A. Boyd , Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity

4 " All acts of God proceed from the transcendent Father, through his Son or Word or Image, in the power of  his immanent Holy Spirit. And this is true both during the Incarnation "

― Gregory A. Boyd , Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity

5 " Let us say once again that the doctrine of the Trinity does not divide God up into “thirds.” Because God is Spirit, God is unquantifiable and indivisible. Any other view of God is really pagan, anthropomorphic, and materialistic. Hence, "

― Gregory A. Boyd , Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity