I used to be a Oneness ordained minister. Some things such as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost *absolutely* having no distinctions is taking the text way too far. The particular rendered meaning is taking theology way to far from the Biblical text. Anyone who gives the Bible a close reading of the text knows their is some distinctions between the function of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in our salvation.
I used to believe and have the "unbiblical attitude" that one cannot claim to be a Christian/Believer/Saved unless they speak in tongues, receive the Baptism of the HOly Ghost, be baptized by immersion in the Name of Jesus Christ, and have the standards of dress in order to have a conversion and be considered holy. Now, I believe one needs an evangelical confirmation to confess Jesus Christ as Lord at conversion without water baptism, baptism in the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, or a standard of dress. Though, I still believe in the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues, but not like the UPC or Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal church.
I used to be a Oneness UPCI pastor, and the organization is an unhealthy and very shallow organization and belief system. I know because I used to be ordained in that organization
All The Best,
Greg Norton
You haven't stated anything that the UPC does or believes that I would consider unhealthy, or shallow. Having some false beliefs doesn't make a denomination shallow, if it did, all denominations would be shallow. And I don't consider women in buns without makeup unhealthy. My grandma didn't wear makeup and wore her hair in a bun and there was nothing wrong with it , and she was not UPC, she was a baptist, in fact in her day women wearing lipstick were considered prostys.
the real problem is that you believe Jesus is god,thus you have gone from one nonsensical explanation (Jesus is his own daddy) to one even more nonsensical (3 persons are one god, aka, 3 beings are one being.) The problem is you've named too many gods, and the bible says there is only one god, thus you will never have any logical explantation that makes any kind of sense as to how all 3 can be one being. The truth is God the father, according to scritprue is the one and only true god, the holy spirit is often spoken of in personifications, and is the spirit of god the father, and Jesus is not his daddy, he is not God, he is the son of god. That truth is not illogical and makes total sense. All other explanations are nonsensical. 3 is not one. ONe is one, and 3 is 3.
Saying the methiodist trinity is correct cause the uPC oneness is wrong is basically your proof.
But I understand your reluctance to even consider that Jesus is not god, in spite of several scriptrues that flat out state that Jesus is not god. It's because near about all christians say you gotta beleive Jesus is god to be saved. Therefore, you can't even consider the possibility that Jesus is not god.
Also, your reasoning seems to be that since the UPC is wrong about the necessity of speaking in tongues to be saved, that they are therefore also wrong about the proper method of baptism, aka in Jesus name. So because the UPC misinterpets a certain scirpture to come up with you gotta speak in tongues to be saved, throw out all the scriptures that say baptism is in Jesus name. That's what Im getting from you.
I believe the UPC has a lot of truth, but has shot itself in the foot so to speak by adopting certain false doctrines that scare most people away, such as women can't wear makeup and lipstick, men can't wear short sleve shirts, etc.
Going from UPC to mthodist is going backwards in my estimation. you remind me of Oral Roberts who went backwards from pentecostal to methodist because of some abuses in the pentecostal movement of his day. There's a saying that I feel fits here, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."