modalism in a sentence

1. This led to the charge of patripassianism, which became another label for modalism.

2. Modalism has been mainly associated with Sabellius, who taught a form of it in Rome in the 3rd century.

3. Modalism teaches that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not all eternal and do not all exist at the same time.

4. The church is a proponent of the belief of modalism to describe God, and is non-trinitarian in its conception of God.

5. A more sophisticated form of modalism was taught by Sabellius in Rome early in the third century and was given the name Sabellianism.

6. Modalism or Sabellianism makes the persons of Christ and the Holy Spirit to be only historical roles or modifications of the one God.

7. Thus there is no room in the Biblical portrait for three gods (tritheism) or one God who manifests himself in three different modes (modalism).

8. The four primary teachings about God that exist among Christians are Trinitarianism, Modalism (also called ?Jesus only?), Unitarianism, and Tritheism.

9. 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).

10. Modalism, Orthodox Trinitarianism, and Tritheism are all equally dangerous in that they all deny the Bible truths that Christ is truly the Son of God and that He truly died for our sins.

11. Those who argue for modalism in the Book of Mormon are reading it with a particular set of glasses on and I don’t believe the set of glasses is very clear, I think you need to clean the lenses.

12. Swedenborg's theological teachings about the Trinity being in the One Person Jesus Christ is labeled by some as modalism because it identifies three aspects (not persons) of One God, a unitarian God.

13. This along with the fact that modalism was much more popular than dynamic monarchianism (so much so that it alone is sometimes simply called monarchianism) is perhaps why Paul is classified by later patristic writers as a modalist.

14. The risk of tritheism or modalism [2] is real and perhaps many are tritheists without realizing; yet the Christian experience always tells us that God in what illuminates the mind even of the obedient child, open to the truth and trusting in his educators.

15. Divergent views led early to numerous Trinitarian controversies such as those over subordinationism (the teaching that the Son is subordinate to the Father and the Holy Spirit to both; see ARIANISM) and modalism (the view that the three modes are transitory; see MONARCHIANISM and SABELLIANISM).