Have you heard of oneness theology? Also called “Jesus only,” this is the idea that Jesus is all there is. Jesus is the Father; Jesus is the Holy Spirit. Jesus has manifested himself in many ways over the years, but there is only one individual or self who is God. Although not exclusive to the Pentecostal movement, most oneness believers belong to charismatic (or apostolic) groups today. This is a classic message given by Pastor J. Dan Gill in the early 2000s. I remember sitting there in the audience listening to him share about his community’s journey of faith and thinking to myself, “Wow, he’s my people!” Whether you currently hold oneness theology or not, take a listen to Brother Gill’s testimony and see you what you think.
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- Check out these other episodes on oneness, including an interview with J. Dan and Sharon Gill as well as the testimony of famed gospel singer, Joel Hemphill.
- Also you may want to watch his YouTube presentation: “Acts 2-Listen Pentecostals“
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Very interesting, Sean. Having seen some of bro. Dan’s work before (and briefly corresponded with him in the past), it appears that (as with bro. Anthony Buzzard) Dan’s Christology (and his Anthropology) can essentially be categorized as classic Socinianism. The upshot of this, is that when Dan says that the evidence of ‘The Acts of the Apostles’ testifies to Jesus being ‘a Man’, Dan most probably means :
‘A Man who fully participated in OUR (post-Edenic / ‘postlapsarian’) human nature’.
It is so helpful to listen to Mr. Gill. Especially when the scriptures he quotes backs the truth. It can be confusing and difficult to know this truth as so many oppose it. We need more of him. It is so nice to clear the confusion. ajc
Dear bro. ajc;
Bro. Dan Gill makes many fine points, but from what I gather from his wider work, he holds no conception whatsoever, of any congenitally acquired ‘bias to sin’, derivable from Adam and Eve (cf. Romans 7:14-24, for a description of the outworking of this innate ‘bias to sin’, within the life of an actual moral sinner).
God bless you, ajc.
john I don’t understand your comment. I am so with him on the repent concept. Talking to people about repenting and going with Jesus as God told us to do. God’s people. It is difficult to not sin unless you are aware of God. I think Mr. Gill has a very real personal knowledge of God. Faith has a lot to do with knowing God and being led by him. ajc faith is knowing you can trust God and he is real.
Hello, ajc;
I almost agree with everything you say.
I have no doubt that Mr. Gill, as you say, ” has a very real personal knowledge of God”, However, many people may probably be much better Christians than they are theologians, and some of Mr. Gill’s wider (anthropological) views, do seem somewhat ‘Pelagian’.
Christian ‘Pelagians’ are people who do not believe that ‘the Fall’ of Adam had such an intrinsic effect upon human nature, that it resulted (to some extent) in EVERY man (since Adam) NECESSARILY (in theory, and, in practice) becoming a personal moral sinner – and in need of a personal repentance. For Pelagians, it is theoretically possible for some men (Christians and non-Christians) to have haver sinned in their entire lives – and to have been just as morally perfect as Christ. One Christian group that believes such is ‘The Nazarene Fellowship’, which is a ‘splinter group’ from the ‘Christadelphians’ (‘Brethren in Christ’).