Capture The Oneness Of God (Series In Pentecostal Theology, Vol 1) Depicted By David K. Bernard Available In PDF

book will blow your mind as it is packed full of intelligent debate and reasoning for the Oneness of God, This book is a must and as it will show you it is a must to the Christian faith, I disagree with David but enjoyed reading his arguments, An important overview of oneness theology proper and christology, No estoy de acuerdo con esta doctrina pero en question de formato y contenido, este libro es un, La informacion esta bien organizada y el contenido es completo y claro, Es un excelente libro para aprender en detalle de que se trata la unicidad de Dios, Practical, biblical and in depth, This is a slightly heavy read, but is a tremendous resource for the oneness doctrine, This book is fantastic. I love Bernards scholarly approach to the Doctrine, I throughly enjoy his many citations and quotes form respected theologians to help support the Oneness of God, His treatment of churches to reason incredible, Pointing out the errors of heresy and upholding the true biblical doctors of God, A triumph! This is a great book and David K, Bernard has presented the Oneness of God in a way that's constantly backed by scripture, Every time he makes a statement it is followed with scripture not an opinion backed by philosophies of men, I have read this book twice and always enjoy books by him, This book has also been presented in a way that the

average person can understand, Bernard shows he's a good lawyer, able to argue his views effectively, but ignoring the entirety of scholarship too prove his point I have this book in paperback and as an ebook.
it is another one of my books that I recommend for any Christian I read this book when I questioned the doctrine of the Trinity, After finishing it, I was completely a Trinitarian, Bernard's writing style is easy to read and follow, yet I believe that he uses the Bible and other scholarly research to support his pointofview and fails to truly interact with church history and some challenging passages in the New Testament.
Further, he also uses modern definitions to attempt to explainrd,th, andth century explanations, which is not good scholarship, IMHO,

I do not recommend this book,Stars



If the title didn't give it away, this book, indepth, tackles the theology of Oneness and provides a concise defense for accepting 'Oneness' over the Trinitarian belief.



Chapters: The doctrine of Christian monotheism conveyed by the Bible

Chapters: Rebutting other interpretations

Chapter: History of Oneness postapostolic

Chapters: Doctrine, history, and development of the Trinitarian Doctrine


My biggest nitpick with this book concerns the writing:

Chapter: "The Son" seems almost contradictory to 'oneness' theology.
As well, the lastof this book regarding the "Son"/'Jesus Christ as a man' becomes a bit confusing in terms of ascertaining whatever exactly the author is trying to convey.


This book is based on building blocks of former chapters and heavily relies on recalling and repeating previous information which becomes incredibly tedious to read at times.



Though others may find it boring, I enjoyed the somewhat frivolous arguments against Oneness theology that are presented and debunked,


All in all, a solid book that I highly recommend not reading in one sitting such as I did,






Notable Quotes:


A common remark by some trinitarians about the Old Testament doctrine of the oneness of God is that God only intended to emphasize His oneness as opposed to pagan deities but that He still existed as a plurality.
However, if this conjecture were true, why did not God make it clear Why have the Jews not understood a theology of “persons” but have insisted on an absolute monotheism Let us look at it from Gods point of view.
Suppose He did want to exclude any belief in a plurality in the Godhead, How could He do so using thenexisting terminology What strong words could He use to get His message across to His people When we think about it, we will realize that He used the strongest possible language available to describe absolute oneness.
In the preceding verses of  Scripture in Isaiah, we note the use of words and phrases such as “none, none else, none like me, none beside me, alone, by myself,” and “one.
” Surely, God could not make it plainer that no plurality whatsoever exists in the Godhead, In short, the Old Testament affirms that God is absolutely one in number,


In other words, the Bible describes infinite God in finite, human terms in order that we may better comprehend Him, For example, the heart of God denotes His intellect and His emotions, not a bloodpumping organ Genesis::, When God said heaven was His throne and earth was His footstool, He described His omnipresence, not a pair of literal feet propped up on the globe Isaiah:, When God said His right hand spanned the heavens, He described His great power and not a large hand stretching through the atmosphere Isaiah:, “The eyes of the LORD are in every place” does not mean that God has physical eyes in every location but indicates His omnipresence and omniscience Proverbs:, When Jesus cast devils out by the finger of God, He did not pull down a giant finger from heaven, but He exercised the power of God Luke:, The blast of Gods nostrils was not literal particles emitted by giant heavenly nostrils but the strong east wind sent by God to part the Red Sea Exodus::, In fact, literal interpretation of all the visions and physical descriptions of God would lead to the belief that God has wings Psalm:, In short, we believe God as a Spirit does not have a body unless He chooses to manifest Himself in a bodily form, which He did in the person of Jesus Christ.



These moral attributes of God are not contradictory but work in harmony, For example, Gods holiness required an immediate separation be tween God and humans when they sinned, Then, Gods righteousness and justice required death as the penalty for sin, but Gods love and mercy sought pardon, God satisfied both justice and mercy by the death of Christ at Calvary and the resulting plan of salvation


In using LORD as a substitute for YHWH, they were simply following an ancient Jewish tradition of substituting Adonai for YHWH when copying or reading the Scriptures.
This custom arose because the Jews wanted to safeguard against taking Gods name in vain, which would violate the third commandment Exodus:, They felt that by constantly repeating the sacred name of God they might begin to treat it too casually and lightly, The name of God was so holy and sacred that they did not feel worthy to use it,


Jesus means JehovahSavior, Jehovah our Salvation, or Jehovah is Salvation, This is why the angel said, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” Matthew:.
The identification of the name Jesus with salvation is particularly evident because the Hebrew for Jeshua is practically identical to the Hebrew for salvation, especially since ancient  Hebrew did not use written vowels.
In fact, Strongs Exhaustive Concordance transliterates Jeshua as Yeshuwa and the Hebrew word for salvation as Yeshuwah, Although others have borne the name Jehoshua, Joshua, or Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ is the only One who actually lived up to that name, He is the only One who is actually what that name describes,

Isaiah:is one of the most powerful proofs that Jesus is God: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
” The terms child and son refer to the Incarnation, or the manifestation of “The mighty God” and “The everlasting Father, ”

The statement that Jesus is God necessarily implies that God took on human flesh, This is in fact what the Bible says,
. “God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory” I Timothy:see versefor further confirmation that God is the subject of verse.
God was manifest made visible in flesh God was justified shown to be right in the Spirit God was seen of angels God was believed on in the world and God was received up into glory.
How and when did all of this happen In Jesus Christ,
. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” John:,, Literally, the Word God was tabernacled or tented among us, When did God tabernacle or robe Himself in flesh In Jesus Christ, Both verses prove that Jesus is Godthat He is God manifest revealed, made known, made evident, displayed, shown in flesh,
God is a Spiritwithout flesh and blood and invisible to us, In order to make Himself visible to us and in order to shed innocent blood for our sins, He had to put on flesh, For more on the purposes of the Son, see chapter, Jesus is not another God or a part of God, but He is the God of the Old Testament robed in flesh,

Johnbeautifully teaches the concept of God manifest in flesh, In the beginning was the Word Greek, Logos, The Word was not a separate person or a separate god any more than a mans word is a separate person from him, Rather the Word was the thought, plan, or mind of God, The Word was with God in the beginning and actually was God Himself John:, The Incarnation existed in the mind of God before the world began, Indeed, in the mind of God the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world I Peter:Revelation:,

We can easily understand all of this if we realize that Jesus has a dual nature, He is both Spirit and flesh, God and man, Father and Son, On His human side He is the Son of man on His divine side He is the Son of God and is the Father dwelling in flesh,

When Paul, the educated Jew, the Pharisee of Pharisees, the fanatic persecutor of Christianity, was stricken on the road to Damascus by a blinding light from God, he asked, “Who art thou, Lord” As a Jew, he knew there was only one God and Lord, and he was asking, “Who are You, Jehovah” The Lord answered, “I am Jesus” Acts:.


Although Moses dealt with Jehovah God, Hebrews:says that Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, So Moses God was Jesus Christ,

The Jews were right in believing that there was one God, in believing that only God could forgive sin, and in understanding that Jesus claimed to be the one God the Father and Jehovah incarnate.
They were wrong only because they refused to believe Jesus claim,
It is amazing that some people today not only reject the Lords assertion of His true identity but even fail to realize what He did assert, Even the Jewish opponents of Jesus realized that Jesus claimed to be God, the Father, and Jehovah in flesh, but some today cannot see what the Scriptures so plainly declare.


We should consider the dual nature of Christ in the framework of biblical terminology, The term “Father” refers to God HimselfGod in all His deity, When we speak of the eternal Spirit of God, we mean God Himself, the Father, “God the Father,” therefore, is a perfectly acceptable and biblical phrase to use for God Titus:, However, the Bible does not use the phrase “God the Son” even one time, It is not a correct term because the Son of God refers to the humanity of Jesus Christ, The Bible defines the Son of God as the child born of Mary, not as the eternal Spirit of God Luke:, “Son of God” may refer to the human nature or it may refer to God manifested in fleshthat is, deity in the human nature,

According to Gods plan, the shedding of blood was necessary for the remission of human sins Hebrews:, The blood of animals could not take away human sin because animals are inferior to humans Hebrews:, No other human could purchase redemption for someone else because all had sinned and so deserved the penalty of death for themselves Romans::, Only God was sinless, but He did not have flesh and blood, Therefore, God prepared a body for Himself Hebrews:, that He might live a sinless life in flesh and shed innocent blood to save humanity, He became flesh and blood so that He could through death defeat the devil and deliver humanity Hebrews:, In this way Christ is our propitiationthe means by which we obtain forgiveness, the satisfaction of Gods justice, the appeasement of Gods holy wrath Romans:,

Hebrews:states that God made the worlds by the Son, Similarly, Colossians:says all things were created by the Son, and Ephesians:says all things were created by Jesus Christ, What does creation “by the Son” mean, since the Son did not have a substantial preexistence before the Incarnation
Of course, we know that Jesus as God pre existed the Incarnation, since the deity of Jesus is none other than the Father Himself.
We recognize that Jesus the divine Spirit of Jesus is indeed the Creator, These verses describe the eternal Spirit that was in the Sonthe deity that was later incarnated as the Sonas the Creator, The humanity of Jesus Christ could not create, but God who came in the Son as Jesus Christ created the world, Hebrews:clearly states that Jesus as Lord was the Creator,

“But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, ” The first portion of the above passage clearly refers to the deity in the Son, while the second portion refers to the humanity of the Son, The writer of Hebrews quoted a prophetic passage in Psalm:, This is not a conversation in the Godhead but a prophetic utterance inspired by God and looking to the future incarnation of God in flesh, God was speaking prophetically through the psalmist to describe Himself in a future role,

We should note that these three titles are not the only ones God has, Many other titles or names for God are very significant and appear frequently in the Bible, including terms such as LORD Jehovah, Lord, Word, God Almighty, and Holy One of Israel.
The Oneness view does not deny the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, but it does refute the view that these terms designate persons in the Godhead, God has many titles, but He is one being, He is indivisible as to His existence, but His revelation of Himself to humanity has been expressed through many channels, including His revelation as the Father, in the Son, and as the Holy Ghost.


We know that the one name of Matthew:is Jesus, for Jesus is the name of the Father John:Hebrews:, the Son Matthew:, and the Holy Ghost John:.
The New Testament church understood this to be so, for they baptized in the name of Jesus Christ Acts::::I Corinthians:, Matthew himself endorsed this interpretation by standing with Peter and the other apostles during the sermon in which Peter commanded the people to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ Acts:.

Some claim that the references in Acts do not really mean that the name of Jesus was orally uttered as part of the baptismal formula, However, this appears to be an attempt to twist the language to comply with an erroneous doctrine and practice, Acts:says, “Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord, ” The Amplified Bible says, “Rise and be baptized, and by calling upon His name wash away your sins, ” The Interlinear GreekEnglish New Testament says, “Invoking the name, ” Therefore this verse of Scripture indicates the name Jesus was orally invoked at baptism,

We should remember that water baptism is administered because of our past life of sin it is for the “remission of sins” Acts:, Since the name of Jesus is the only saving name Acts:, it is logical that the name be used in baptism,

The New Testament writers had no conception of the doctrine of the trinity, which was still far in the future, They came from a strict monotheistic Jewish background one God was not an issue with them at all, Some passages may seem “trinitarian” to us at first glance because trinitarians through the centuries have used them and interpreted them according to their doctrine, However, to the early church, who had no concept of the future doctrine of the trinity, these same passages were readily understandable, There was no thought of contradicting either strict monotheism or the deity of Jesus,

Do the prayers of Christ indicate a distinction of persons between Jesus and the Father No, On the contrary, His praying indicates a distinction between the Son of God and God, Jesus prayed in His humanity, not in His deity, If the prayers of Jesus demonstrate that the divine nature of Jesus is different from the Father, then Jesus is inferior to the Father in deity, In other words, if Jesus prayed as God then His position in the Godhead would be somehow inferior to the other “persons, ” This one example effectively destroys the concept of a trinity of coequal persons,
How can God pray and still be God By definition, God in His omnipotence has no need to pray and in His oneness has no other to whom He can pray.
If the prayers of Jesus prove there are two persons in the Godhead, then one of those persons is subordinate to the other and therefore not fully or truly God.

What, then, is the explanation of the prayers of Christ It can only be that the man Jesus prayed to the eternal Spirit of God, God did not need help only the man did, As Jesus said at the Garden of Gethsemane, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” Matthew:,

By referring to the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, the writers were emphasizing two roles of God and the importance of accepting Him in both roles.
Not only must we believe in God as our Creator and Father, but we must accept Him as manifested in the flesh through Jesus Christ, Everyone must acknowledge that Jesus is come in the flesh and that He is both Lord and Christ Messiah, Consequently, the salutations emphasize belief not only in God, which the Jews and many pagans accepted, but also in God as revealed through Christ,
This explains why it was unnecessary to mention the Holy Ghost the concept of God as a Spirit was wrapped up in the title of God the Father, especially to the Jewish mind.
We must remember, too, that the doctrine of the trinity did not develop until much later in church history, See chapter. Therefore, these phrases did not sound the least bit awkward or strange to the writers or the readers,

II Corinthians:reads, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all, Amen. ” Again, we should remember that Paul penned this verse of Scripture at a time when trinitarianism was still a doctrine of the future, and therefore the verse was not puzzling or unusual at the time.
Basically, the verse conveys three aspects or attributes of God that we can know and have, First, there is Gods grace, God has made His grace available to humanity through His manifestation in flesh, in Jesus Christ, In other words, unmerited favor, divine help, and salvation come to us through the atoning work of Jesus, Then God is love, and love always has been part of His basic nature, He loved us long before He robed Himself in flesh as Christ, And finally, the baptism of the Holy Ghost gives us communion fellowship with God and with our fellow believers: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body”the body of Christ I Corinthians:.
Through the indwelling Spirit of God, not the presence of the physical body of Jesus Christ, we have a present, continuing relationship with God unlike anything available to the Old Testament saints.

II Corinthians:is logical and under standable when we interpret it as three important relationships God has shared with us or as three different works the one God accomplishes.
There are diversities of operations but only one God working all in all I Corinthians:,

The Bible does not mention the word trinity, nor does it mention the word persons in reference to God, The Bible does not even relate the words person and three to God in any significant way,
Nonbiblical terminology in and of itself does not mean that a doctrine described by it is necessarily false, but it does cast considerable doubt on the matter, This is especially true when the nonbiblical terminology is not merely a replacement for biblical terminology, but instead it teaches new concepts, In short, nonbiblical terminology is dangerous if it leads to nonbiblical ways of thinking and eventually to nonbiblical doctrines, Trinitarianism certainly has this problem, .