Three Gods

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Responding to a post by Timothy Litteral, Floyd Avery wrote:

>I went to the Assemblies of God for several years. I love them and I
>am thinking about going back. I have studied the Oneness and Trinity
>issue for many years. The one thing I know for sure is the difference
>between God and the devil. The same God that is in the UPC also goes
>to the AOG.

God bless you, Bro. Avery. I also have many wonderful friends in
trinitarian Pentecostal and holiness circles. In fact, back in 1983, I
studied at a college affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
(the Canadian equivalent of the Assemblies of God). I left after one
semester, when the college president required me to choose between the
school and the conservative Oneness church I attended. I was overwhelmed by
the love and concern of faculty members and students who disagreed with the
president's position and offered to intervene.

It was a short stay, but one of tremendous spiritual blessing and growth.
While there were important differences between our views of the godhead,
there was never any suggestion that we were worshiping altogether different
gods. If such were the case, we would have to rethink our view of the whole
history of modern-day Pentecost, and the common heritage we share with
trinitarian Pentecostals. For instance, we would need to regard
participants in the great Azusa Street revival as poor, deluded souls who
worshiped in vain, prayed in vain, and spoke in tongues as the spirit of a
"false" or "non-existent" god gave the utterance -- after all, they had not
received the Oneness revelation of the true God!

>Everyone please forgive me for the way this will come across to some.
>The last thing that I wish to do is hurt anyone. If you wish to flame
>me, please do so in private so as not to hurt others.

Your message came across to me as nothing but kind and thoughtful.

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In a related post, Timothy Litteral wrote:

> My point is this, if you are praying to a god that is three persons
> in one you are praying to something that just doesn't exits.  This
> is a false god and to "participate" in this worship of a false god
> is and abomination.

Bro. Litteral, you may wish to check the H-F archives, as this ground was
covered by several members while you were off the list. My own response to
your assertion would be identical to my reply to Chris Sterrett [Date: Wed,
18 Jun; Subject: Re: AN ARTICLE~~~what does this all mean???].

I believe you also claimed in another post that trinitarians are accursed
because they preach "another gospel" (Galatians 1:8). Mike Harvey posted
the same claim while you were off the list. My response, if it's of
interest, was on H-F Fri, 20 Jun; Subject: Re: Trinitarians Saved? ... No!

Cary Robison
Apostolic to the bone, because of His blood