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Originally Posted by Jo S
You believe God, who is spirit, became a human being (Jesus) and then Jesus turned back into a spirit after resurrection. This sounds more modalistic rather than trinitarian or perhaps a hybrid of some kind. Haven't yet given it too much thought.
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Modalism does not believe in eternal coexistence which is that all three persons exist at the same time, from eternity. That's the key difference and in fact the only real difference between modalism and Trinitarianism - modalism does not believe that Christ existed before he was born.
Trinitarians do believe that God became a man, Jesus Christ, just as modalists do, but the difference is the eternal coexistence.