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Explanation that God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are modes of one force expressed differently.
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modalism
Explanation that God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are modes of one force expressed differently.
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Theory that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are the same being expressed in different modes, like water, ice, and vapor.
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Modalism, partialism, and Arianism are intelligible story-forms for the divine relationship, but Jiang says each leaves a problem unresolved.
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"...of make sense, okay? So the first is the idea of modalism. Modalism is the idea that Jesus, and God, and Holy Spirit are..."
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"...Okay, so let's look at them. The first theory is called modalism. Modalism, and it's the idea that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit..."
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"Another theory that's popular is called partialism. Partialism, and the idea is that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are parts of a higher..."
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"So God is a higher being than Jesus. Jesus is still great, but God is the superior being, okay? And again, not great, okay,..."
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"...lesser divinity. Then, there are people who call... Who believed in modalism. Who just believe the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and God were different forms..."
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"...all, what we need to understand is, these first three theories, modalism, partialism, and Aaronism, are really stories, okay? They're stories of who God..."
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"...theories in here. And if you look at these three theories, modalism, partialism, and eruditism, you can actually put them together, okay? They're not..."
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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