What does the largest Oneness group say about God?

[Andreas]

What does the United Pentecostal Church say about God?

From its website:

https://upci.org/our-beliefs/

About God

"There is one God, who has revealed Himself as Father; through His Son, in redemption; and as the Holy Spirit, by emanation. Jesus Christ is God manifested in flesh. He is both God and man. (See Deuteronomy 6:4; Ephesians 4:4-6; Colossians 2:9; I Timothy 3:16.)"

 

[101G]

the first thing in ERROR, their statement about God,
There is one God, who has revealed Himself as Father; through His Son, in redemption; and as the Holy Spirit, by emanation. Jesus Christ is God manifested in flesh. He is both God and man. (See Deuteronomy 6:4; Ephesians 4:4-6; Colossians 2:9; I Timothy 3:16.)

emanations: an abstract but perceptible thing that issues or originates from a source.

to emanate: verb (used without object), em·a·nat·ed, em·a·nat·ing. to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate. verb (used with object), em·a·nat·ed, em·a·nat·ing. to send forth; emit.

but they also say, "Jesus Christ is God manifested in flesh", if he's God, how do he emanate? because God himself is the Source. and emanate is "FROM" the source.

for if something or someone emanate .... "FROM" a SOURCE" then it's not the SOURCE. but they say Jesus Christ is God. that want work.

 

[Caroljeen]

What does the United Pentecostal Church say about God?

From its website:

https://upci.org/our-beliefs/

About God

"There is one God, who has revealed Himself as Father; through His Son, in redemption; and as the Holy Spirit, by emanation. Jesus Christ is God manifested in flesh. He is both God and man. (See Deuteronomy 6:4; Ephesians 4:4-6; Colossians 2:9; I Timothy 3:16.)"

What do you think is meant by "emanation?

 

[Andreas]

What do you think is meant by "emanation?

I think we can just use the dictionary definition such as "to flow out, issue, proceed...". With the Holy Spirit in view, we perceive God's presence as poured out, flowing rivers of living water, proceeding from the Father into the believer. Oneness often teaches the Spirit of God as God in action, invisible, but yet real like the wind. Thousands of windmills turn as a witness of the force of wind though the wind itself is not seen. So to with the Holy Spirit, though invisible, is a witness of transformation and life in the believer.

Of course, Oneness people do not understand the Holy Spirit as another person of God, but the essence of God Himself being manifested through the believer. The Biblical language of "proceeding from the Father" is not to be taken in the literal sense of one person in heaven sending another person down into the believer, because we know from the teaching of Jesus that the infilling of the Holy Spirit means the Father is "in you all" (Spirit filled believers).

That the Trinitarian is unable to reconcile One Spirit in the believer with 3 persons in the believer is a mess of their own making, not the Bibles fault.