Pentecostals and the Trinity

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I would appreciate your assistance in gathering information for an
article I am writing about Pentecostals and the Trinity.  The following
questionnaire is not only being sent to higher-fire but to an Assemblies
of God discussion group, hopefully, for posting.  These are not trick
questions and they are not exhaustive.  The questions are intended to
assess your understanding of the Christian doctrine of God in
relationship to contemporary scholarship.  Could you please complete the
following questionnaire, post it to the forum, if deemed appropriate by
the moderator, or, for confidentiality, return it to me via e-mail: 
stevstar@prodigy.net.  The results and an interpretation will be sent
for post in this forum or via private e-mail upon request.  Thank you!

Questions on The Christian Doctrine of God.  True or False.

1.	The Christian doctrine of God has its source in the revelation of God
in human history.

2.	The Christian doctrine of God is derived from Holy Scripture.

3.	The doctrine of the Trinity is the explicit teaching of Holy
Scripture.

4.	The doctrine of the Trinity has always expressed the Church's
understanding of God.

5.	The doctrine of the Trinity is foreshadowed in the Old Testament.

6.	The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that their is one God in three
persons.

7.	The new Testament specifies the nature of the relationships between
and among the persons of the Trinity.

8.	The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God has only one divine
nature or essence.

9.	In the doctrine of the Trinity the term person means "possessing an
independent self consciousness."

10.	The doctrine of the Trinity was developed to protect the Church
against heresy.

11.	The doctrine of the trinity uses Hellenistic, Greek, philosophical
terms and concepts to express define God.

12.	All Christians have the same understanding and interpretation of the
doctrine of the Trinity.

13.	The Christian doctrine of God states that Jesus is God.

14.	The Christian doctrine of God states that God Himself was incarnate
in Jesus Christ.

15.	The Christian doctrine of God states that God has an identity apart
from Jesus Christ.

16.	Holy Scripture was written with the explicit purpose of giving
Christians a knowledge of the inner being of God.

17.	The Christian doctrine of God states that God's revelation in
history as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is His essence (being).

18.	Christians come to know God Himself (the Father), in Jesus Christ
(the Son), through the Holy Spirit.

19.	The Christian doctrine of God is a revelational event.

20.	Sermons explaining the doctrine of the Trinity are frequently
preached in Pentecostal churches.

21.	The doctrine of the Trinity is an essential part of Pentecostal
worship.

22.	The focus of Pentecostal worship is the person and work of Jesus
Christ.

23.	Most Christians understand the doctrine of the Trinity.

24.	The Christian doctrine of God is not a mystery.

25.	The Modalists condemned by the church fathers believed that Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, were transitory roles assumed by God in historical
revelation.

26.	The Modalists condemned by the church fathers believed that God was
somehow different than His historical revelation.

27.	The belief of contemporary Oneness Pentecostals is a form of 
modalism.

28.	The doctrine of the Trinity has been understood in a tritheistic
(three God) manner by some Christians.

29.	The Christian doctrine of God should avoid both modalism and
tritheism.

30.	There can be more than one expression of the Christian doctrine of
God.