05/31/2026
Are Oneness Pentecostals teaching a false gospel? Is the oneness movement among the many “antichrists” that have arrived in this world ?
Text:
1John chapter 4 :8
“Beloved - ” beloved “ - do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus, is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Let us start by saying :
Old Testament truth was only revealed obscurely. From the beginning of creation, God had revealed Himself in plural Persons (Gen 1:26-27, Gen 3:22, Gen 11:7).
God did not cooperate with His angels in creation. The word “us” used in Gen 1:26, 3:22, and 11:7 cannot be angels or anything else, for angels were created to serve God and minister to His saints, not to join Him in creation (Heb 1:7, 14, Psalms 104:4).
God revealed His name through Moses, David, and Isaiah. God revealed His name to Moses first in the Old Testament (Exo 3:14, 6:3) and His name is “JEHOVAH.” David and Isaiah also revealed the same name through inspiration of the Holy Ghost as they wrote down the scriptures (Psalms 83:18, Isa 12:2, 26:4). Nowhere in the O.T. is the name of God revealed as “Jesus.”
Isaiah heard the Plurality of the Divine Persons of the Godhead. Revealed to him in a vision, Isaiah saw and heard the Lord’s plural Divinity when being asked if he would go and warn the rebellious nation of Israel (Isa 6:8). If the Oneness doctrine is true, why did God use “us” instead of “Me” when testing Isaiah’s desire to do His will?
God’s angel chose the name for the Son of God. The name “JESUS” was given to the Son of Mary and Joseph, through His miraculous conception of the Holy Ghost, at the command of the angel Gabriel (Mat 1:21, Luke 1:31).
From where did the Oneness Movement get their idea that the name of God was ‘JESUS’ when the O.T. clearly revealed God’s name as “JEHOVAH” and the Son of Mary was to be named “JESUS.”
Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. John opens his gospel revealing the Word was God and with God being together from the beginning of creation (John 1:1-2, 1 John 5:7). Only through incarnation between the Word of God and Mary’s womb was there a living human body created for God to dwell in, named Jesus (John 1:14, Luke 1:35).
John revealed the Godhead Persons through divine inspiration. The trinity is clearly revealed as three Persons in one Godhead: Father, Word, and the Holy Ghost (1 John 5:7). Only in the fullness of time about 2000 years ago (Gal 4:4) did the Word of God join with human flesh that resulted in the only begotten Son of God (John 1:14,18).
Divine wisdom cannot be understood by trusting man’s opinion or human wisdom. We understand the Godhead to be 1+1+1=1 (1 John 5:7). We base our understanding of heavenly things through faith by the Spirit of God (1 Cor 2:6-11). Using science, critical thinking, or rationalizing with human wisdom will only bring blindness from God, as God hasd clearly declared the wisdom of the world to be foolish in His sight (1 Cor 1:19-21, 1 Tim 6:20)!
Jesus never claimed He was the “Father.” Jesus never once claimed that He was the Father, as He always maintained in His preaching that He came from the Father and was going back to His Father (John 5:37, 6:38, 6:44, John 14:12-13).
Jesus never claimed He was the “Father.” Even their favourite verse of John 14:9, Jesus only stated whoever had seen Him had seen the Father. He never claimed to be the Father! Jesus Christ reflected the image of God the Father, but He was never the Father, nor did He claim to be (Col 1:15, 2 Cor 4:4, Heb 1:3). Why did the Lord Jesus Christ give so many statements that He came from the Father, and was going back to the Father, rather than just plainly state He was the Father (John 5:38, 6:44, 3:16, 3:36, 5:20-30, 36-37, John 15-17)?
Jesus Christ reigns at God’s right hand. The scripture is very plain where Jesus Christ is right now. The Oneness folks have corrupted the word of God (2 Cor 2:17, Rom 16:17-18) by rejecting the Son of God, hallucinating that Jesus is the Father while swapping roles in heaven and denying His existence at the right Hand of God the Father (Psa 2:7-9, Psalms 110:1-2, Heb 1:3, 8:1, 10:12, 12:2, Mark 16:19, Eph 1:20, Acts 2:33, Rom 8:34, 1 Peter 3:22, Col 3:1).
Paul revealed all three Persons live inside each believer. The Spirit of God (Holy Spirit), Jesus Christ (the Son), and the One who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead (Father) dwells in us (Rom 8:9-11). Why did Paul use such distinctive revelation to describe the Holy Spirit inside of us? Simple. Paul knew that God was triune.
Paul revealed the Son is subject to the Father. Why would Paul clearly reveal to the church that the Son is subject to the Father, if Jesus was the Father? It would be clear that He would not be under His own or any other Being’s authority (1 Cor 15:27-28).
Peter and Paul revealed the Trinity works together in a believer’s salvation. The Father’s will and choices, His Son’s blood and obedience, and the Spirit’s sanctification saves a person, as revealed by Peter & Paul (1 Peter 1:2, Eph 1:3-14). Why did they not say that the Father alone became the Son and became the Holy Spirit to save a person, if the Oneness doctrine was true?
Every epistle of the N.T. opens with a clear distinguishing evidence between God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. A quick glance in all the opening verses in the epistles will see God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ clearly separated to show their individuality and relationship (Rom 1:7, Gal 1:1, Phil 1:2, Col 1:2, 1 Cor 1:9, Eph 1:2-3, 2 Thes 2:16, 2 Tim 1:2, Heb 1:1-2, 1 John 1:2-3, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 4:15, 1 John 5:11).
John debunked Trinity rejecters by clearly distinguishing between God the Father and Jesus Christ. John made it very clear to the church in his first epistle about antichrists and false teachers leaving the church to corrupt the doctrine of Christ (1 John 2:18-20, 2 John 1: 7-11). He made it plain that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of the Father, and not the Father (2 John 1:3). He had surely foreseen Trinity rejecters creeping into the church with oneness heresy (2 John 1:9-10, 2 Peter 2:1-3, Jude 1:3-4, 2 Cor 2:17).
Oneness theory is the ancient heresy of “Sabellianism” reintroduced back into the church. Sabellius (215 A.D), a theologian who taught in Rome early in the Second century, revealed and brought in the heresy that the “Father, Son and Holy Ghost” operate in three modes instead of three Persons. He was excommunicated as a heretic in 220 A.D.
Oneness theory is the ancient heresy of “Sabellianism” reintroduced back into the church. This false teaching of Sabellius was revived as “Sabellianism” or “modalistic Monarchianism.” This heresy died just over a hundred years later. It was not heard of until the birth of the UPC in the 20th
Oneness Pentecostals just revived a rejected dead heresy of ancient times. For more than one hundred years hardly any Christians held to this heretical teaching of Sabellius that God exists in three modes. It was not until the early 1900’s, when the Pentecostal movement began after the Azusa Street Revival, that the heretical teaching of Sabellius was re-introduced into the church, causing a split and another cult for the 20th century, called the United Pentecostal Church (UPC).
Paul warned false teachers would bring in another Jesus into the church to deceive Christians. False teachers do not teach by God’s revealed Word in the Bible. They corrupt God’s Word for personal gain (2 Cor 11:4, Isa 8:20, 2 Tim 3:16-17, 2 Pet 2:1-3). Oneness theology has proven this by teaching another Jesus (Father not Son), another gospel (three modes not divine Persons), and another Spirit (by going against the inspired scriptures of the Holy Ghost).
Paul warned wisdom of the world is foolishness unto God. Oneness heretics try to explain the Godhead by applying our human rational mind, that one God cannot be in three persons, or else it would result in three gods instead of one. But Paul mocked human tradition, wisdom, and philosophies as foolishness in the sight of God (1 Cor 1:19-21, Col 2:8). Spiritual things are not to be understood by man’s wisdom, but by faith (1 Cor 2:6-14, Hab 2:4).
Peter warned the church that false teachers would bring in damnable heresies causing many to go astray. Oneness doctrine originates from Sabellius’s ancient heresy, and was used by the Oneness Movement to lead people astray after their false teachings, in order to gain a following after them and their false beliefs. Peter warned judgement will be severe on those that bring heresies into the church (2 Peter 2:1-3).
Paul told the Galatians that any doctrine different from the apostolic doctrine was to be accursed. In defence of the gospel of Jesus Christ, Paul warned that any other gospel that contradicted what he and the apostles taught was to be accursed. Why such a harsh word used here, if heresies could be taken lightly? Because Paul never treated truth and revelation lightly.
Paul warned of perilous times when effeminate teachers would lead Christians, especially silly women, astray with their false doctrines. Oneness Pentecostals fulfil the prophecy as their ancient heresy has led many astray through their teachers creeping into houses to win silly women. They confound the Bible’s definition of the Godhead and cause Christians to be led astray into believing and embracing error (2 Tim 3:6-7, 2 Tim 4:3-4).
The doctrine of the Trinity is as true as any other revelation of God’s truth from the scriptures, and any person, church or denomination that rejects it has to be marked and avoided (Rom 16:17-18, 2 Thes 3:6). The Oneness Pentecostals (UPC) are leaders of the Trinity heresy and have shown by their doctrine and practice to be heretics under the delusion of the devil and his ministers (2 Cor 11: 13-15).
From the desk of Pastor Dale Huffman
