Popular speaker and Bible teacher Priscilla Shirer and writer and Pastor Max Lucado joined with modalist T. D. Jakes of The Potter’s House two years ago in bringing an Easter […]
Consider who Jesus is if there is no Trinity: He would have to another god, a mere man, and a deceiver since in the Bible he talks about his Father and the Holy Spirit as distinct from himself but at the same time as One in the Godhead. If the Trinity is false, then these statements cannot be true, but they are true. The Trinity is one Godhead composed of three distinct, co-equal, co-eternal Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The doctrine of the Trinity has been an essential of the faith throughout church history. Modalism, or Oneness, denies or redefines the Trinity. When T. D. Jakes, a Oneness pastor, was interviewed by two Christian pastors, Jakes cleverly played word games and redefined the Trinity in his own terms, thus fooling the two pastors involved (James MacDonald and Mark Driscoll), as well as others. This article examines how Jakes did this. Jakes has never confessed the Trinity and has continued his association with a group of Oneness churches.