modalist in a sentence

1. Wilbur promotes the idea that Servetus was a modalist.

2. It is not clear whether Beryllus was a Modalist or a Dynamist.

3. Origen opposed the early Modalists who taught that the Son is of the same essence as the Father.

4. Sabellius as well as the modalists preceding him shared the same view of the Logos as that of Paul of Samosata.

5. Each teaching a sequential modalistic manifestation of the material world via a philosophical "concept" called God (theos).

6. But passages like Matthew 3:16-17, where two or all three Persons of the Godhead are present, contradict the modalistic view.

7. Monarchians were divided into two groups, the Adoptionists, or Dynamic Monarchians, and the Patripassians, or Modalistic Monarchians.

8. In like manner, modern Oneness Modalists also believe that the substance of the Father’s Being is the same substance of the Son’s Being.

9. Hence, two distinct identities never spoke through the Son’s human consciousness as that would be a Nestorian model rather than a Oneness Modalistic model.

10. Modalists note that the only number ascribed to God in the Holy Bible is One and that there is no inherent threeness ascribed to God explicitly in scripture.

11. The earlier modalists (operating between the second and third centuries), such as Noetus, Epigonus, and Praxeas, achieved this objective by identifying the Son as the Father himself.

12. 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).

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.