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Originally Posted by Trapped
As far as I can tell, the primary danger of modalism is that a person would have to ignore portions of the Bible that contradict it. In that debate, the UPC guys had no response when they were pressed on the scene in Jesus' baptism which clearly shows the Father, Son, and Spirit all at the same time, no modes about it. And so obviously a willingness to simply wipe aside portions of Scripture sets a problematic precedent.
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Yes, and WL never denied that the Father, Son, and Spirit all existed at the same time. That’s why I called his teaching “modified modalism.” He used Isa 9.6 to say the Son is the Father, and I Cor 15.45 and 2 Cor 3.17 to say the Son is the Spirit. So he never was a true modalist, yet he took too many liberties in equating the three of the Godhead.