An Example of How Modalism is a Satanic Charade
How is Modalism a charade? On my forums I have several accounts. Sometimes I respond to myself from one username to another. I don't really try to conceal this fact if someone finds me out. It would give the impression I am talking to someone else, but I am really just talking to myself. I am 1 Person operating in different modes, but before I created these different modes I was still just 1 Person. These different modes were never really intrinsically a part of me anymore than the modalist Father, Son, and Spirit were God. I just made them up to give some action to the forums and to fulfill certain purposes or functions. I might use one username to address certain topics, and another username for other issues. I have different purposes for each username. This is the type of god Modalists believe in. It is very humanistic as I admit very humanistically that I am doing this. On a human level it is very easy to understand. We can all understand how human I am doing this. This would never convince anyone I am God except for maybe the ex-Mormon Shawn A. McCraney. Can we or should we reduce God down to such a simple boxed in way?
I believe in the God who has always had 3 Persons or personages with 3 wills and since they are all God, the Son is able to do the perfect will of the Father by the Holy Spirit in his spirit. This is God's relational nature and ability to commune among the 3 Persons of the Godhead.
In Modalism the different wills are just illusory because they go back to being just 1 Person before time and space, just like my different handles are just illusory with respect to who I am, for I only have 1 will as I am only 1 Person however mixed up my will "appears" to be in different username personas. I may be presenting 2 wills in 2 accounts unbeknownst to me, but in reality I only have 1 will just like in Modalism you may see the operation of the Father's will and the Son's will, but they are the exact same will unless God has multiple personality. Jesus is not really doing the will of the Father but himself in Modalism since there is no differentiation if this is all just 1 Person.
People might accuse me of being a ventriloquist or deceiving people pretending to be someone else that I am not. However I do have different purposes for my usernames although that confuses me at times. I readily admit that I should disclose all the usernames under my usage which I will do if someone asks. It's actually quite obvious when you look at the member list.
So which God do you believe in, a god with different usernames but really only has 1 will, faked as multiple wills, or 3 wills in 3 Persons? The Trinity or the Triune God of 3 Persons in the Godhead.
You can't go to Heaven if you don't repent of Modalism because there is no sin in Heaven. Misrepresenting God is a sin.
Ultimately what this does is make one disenchanted, misunderstanding they are leaving a cult of modalism, rather than leaving Christianity. Leaving modalism is a good thing.
Modalists make God a schizophrenic with multiple personality talking to himself.
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