Pastor J. Dan Gill was a third-generation Oneness (aka “Jesus only”) Pentecostal. The Oneness movement has historically rejected the mainstream doctrine of the Trinity. Gill was well-entrenched in that community and well-versed in its theology. But over time, he started to notice a disconnect between the Oneness way of talking about Jesus and what he read in the Bible. As a result, Gill began to investigate the matter.
Decades later, Gill holds to what he calls a Christian Monotarian understanding of the Bible, and he’s collected his thoughts into a book, The One: In Defense of God, the contents of which others might call “biblical unitarian” theology, where the one God is the Father, and Jesus is his unique human Son, the Messiah.
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Author: Dale Tuggy
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Bible reference(s): Matthew 28:19, John 1:1-3, John 1:14, John 1:18, Joh 10:30, Joh 17:3, Joh 20:28, 1Co 8:6, Eph 4:6, 1 Tim 2:5, 1 Tim 3:16, 1 John 5:7-8
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