[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Ohio

One group I knew believed Jesus was the Father, Jesus was the Son, and Jesus was the Holy Spirit.

What you're talking about here is a kind of modalism that is taught by "Oneness Pentecostals". It's been around for quite some time and is condemned as heretical by all orthodox Christians. But this is not what I meant by "believing in modalism". Just forget I said this!

My observation is that few Christians actually obsess with the theology of God. I'm sure they have their views about God, but basically accept the Bible and live their lives.

Well I'm certainly glad there have been men who have obsessed with theology over the history of the church. Otherwise there might be a lot more aberrational sects like the Local Church of Witness Lee. And there would be an even a larger number of people who think the Bible teaches modalism, which it does not.

This is basically a topic for academic apologetics, those misguided folks who travel about correcting everyone else.

No, it's a topic for us here, and that's why I'm glad that HBJ started this thread. Sorry if you feel that it's simply about "correcting". It's much more than that, and I thought I tried to explain that in my last post. I guess I didn't do a good enough job this time, at least not for brother Ohio!

To be honest, most Christians see "2 Persons" in God, the Father and the Son, a heavenly loving relationship which desired to include all mankind.

Many Christians see a lot of things. This does't mean that the things they see are biblical. There are a lot of false teachers out there who are teaching all sorts of things. People are free to believe anything they choose (at least here in America), but this doesn't mean that there is not an established standard of orthodoxy. I know that Witness Lee taught us that there was no such standard, but he was wrong.
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