The modalist God appears to us as three but is not three in reality. In trying to protect the oneness of God, modalism denies that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the truth about who the one God is. In so doing, modalism relinquishes the beauty and the seriousness of all that Father, Son, and Spirit do in the world. If the Jesus who died on the cross was not the true God but only a mode God was working in, if the crucifixion is only an act God was putting on, it matters far less than if the crucified Jesus is the true God telling the truth about God’s love for the whole world. If Jesus is a
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