Modalist view of Jesus (for vanhoose)

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> PAT

>    Modalism teaches that one Person (usually the Father) has manifested

> Himself at different times under different names (Jesus/Spirit) or

> modes.  In other words, at times God the Father operated in the mode of

> being the Son and at other times in the mode of being the Holy Spirit.

> So One Person in the Godhead changed from one mode to another.  The

> problem is, what do you do with passages where God the Son is praying to

> God the Father?  Or at Jesus' baptism, all three Persons are present.

>    The doctrine of the trinity is saying that there are three distinct

> Persons.  They are co-equal, co-eternal, and one in essence.  Therefore,

> all three make up the one God.  It is a concept that really does not

> have anything else in our experience to compare it with.

> 

> PHIPPS

> I'm not trying to be difficult, and I know you're busy, but could please

> take a moment to explain what you mean by the word "essence" in the

> above paragraph?

> 

> There is a race in Star Trek (just bear with me for a second, ok?)

> called the Borg, who have different bodies, but share one mind through

> some kind of telepathy, or whatever.  Is that the kind of shared essence

> you're describing (i.e. shared thoughts, but different actual beings)?

> 

> I'd like to understand.

> 

> peace,

> john phipps


IAN
John, it appears to me that Pat (and Claire for that matter) is trying 
to say that God has a Multiple Personality Disorder. Now I'm no 
expert on this type of thing and all I've ever heard about it has been 
in TV movies and TV talk shows but what she is discribing and what 
I have read in the Bible, it certainly sounds like that's the problem.

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