oneness and sacred name - friends or adversaries ?

Schmuel (schmuel@bigfoot.com)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:27:29 -0400


Shalom Higher-fire,

> > Shalom Higher-Fire,
> >     Those who are interested in the issue of the Name of the Saviour,
> > (Jesus, Yahoshua ?) and especially the correlation of the following
>issues...
> >     1) Oneness Doctrine
> >     2) Early Pentecostal Pioneers (e.g. Frank Ewert, Andrew Urshan)
> >     3) The "Sacred Name" Movement

Robert,
      You have my curiosity peaked.  You often talk about oneness, but you
>attend a messianic church.  I could be mistaken here but aern't they
>trinitarian.  You attend Bethel once in a while, we teach a different
>doctrine than your church.  Which one do you 
>believe.

Hi Robert,

   Good to have the curiosity peaked once in awhile :-)

   It may take me a while to unpack your questions ..
   I'll say a few things and then maybe you can separate the public questions
(e.g doctrine, messianic) from the private.. (where do you "go to church")

Suffice it to say (to start)-----

     #1    100+% oneness, always have been, plan always to be...
     #2    "oneness", imho, does not means "one-dimensional"
                    -- there are many foundational doctrines...
     #3   "messianic church" .. close to being an oxymoron...
     #4   many messianics are trinitarian lite, some are not.. long story ..
               (btw, sacred namers are almost all non-trinitarians)
     #5   haven't been to Bethel for quite a while, not in my plans, tho
                a few Bethelites are friends, well the picnic .. you never 
know..
     #6   Have mentioned on this forum a sabbatarian oneness church,
                (True Jesus Church in Queens) , you gotta listen carefully :-)

Truth is, and remains, Truth..

Shalom for now...

Please remember...
    ... do not believe everything you hear ....
    ... always separate the public from the private with wisdom, grace and 
discretion...









Schmuel
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