It is often claimed by Oneness Pentecostals that the early church before 325 A.D. was mostly oneness / Sabellian / Modalistic and that the Trinity was 'invented' a long time later. Is this claim founded on the historic facts or made up to support their agenda?

Facts to consider:

-15 different early church writers before 325 A.D. precisely used the word 'Trinity' with favor and no one rejected or condemned the term.
-24 early church writers before 325 A.D. taught that the Son of God preexisted His birth/incarnation.

Note: Evidence leads us to conclude that Oneness Pentecostalism, including their view of baptism and the Godhead, was invented in the early 20th century and didn't exist before then. There was no Oneness Pentecostal in the early church. There were 'oneness' or Sabellian defenders but not those who held the same doctrines as the UPCI etc. Sabellius himself probably held to successive Modalism rather than simultaneous Modalism. This is inconsistent with typical Oneness Pentecostalism.

If you would like me to send you the quotes from the early church fathers, or even the slides of this video, just send me an email :-)

es_smith1992@yahoo.com

Some helpful videos:

'A Brief History of Oneness Pentecostalism' : [ Ссылка ]
'A Biblical Case for the Trinity in 5 minutes' : [ Ссылка ]
'The Trinity in a nutshell' : [ Ссылка ]
'Acts 2:38: Baptism for salvation? No!' : [ Ссылка ]
'An Easy Way to Refute Oneness Pentecostalism' : [ Ссылка ]
'The original Nicene Creed, modern translation with Scripture references' : [ Ссылка ]
'The apostle John was a Trinitarian' : [ Ссылка ]
'Demonstrating the eternal Son from Scripture': [ Ссылка ]
'Three persons in one context' : [ Ссылка ]
'Does "Let Us Make Man" Prove the Trinity?' : [ Ссылка ]
'Debate: Trinity vs. Oneness (Smith vs. Ritchie)' : [ Ссылка ]

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