All Posts Tagged "tritheism"

Members of the local churches have written many responses to criticisms of the teaching of Witness Lee and of the local churches. These responses address vital issues of truth concerning God, Christ, His salvation, and the church, among many other subjects.

While it is common (and not wrong) to refer to the Three of the Divine Trinity as three “persons,” the term persons is problematic because it can lead to misunderstanding. This article examines whether Norman Geisler was justified in criticizing a statement of faith in the journal Affirmation & Critique because it did not explicitly use the word persons in its definition of the Trinity.

A critique showing that Walter Martin’s explanation that the Three of the Divine Trinity are separate persons sharing an ill-defined common nature is tantamount to having three separate Gods.

In this 1977 booklet, Witness Lee directly rebuts the accusation that his teaching is modalistic. He examines key verses such as Isaiah 9:6, 1 Corinthians 15:45, and 2 Corinthians 3:17, showing that some who twist these verses to avoid their obvious meaning end up in the heresy of tritheism. Witness Lee concludes by showing that the biblical revelation of the Triune God is not for doctrinal formulations but for His people to experience of the reality of God.

A booklet by Ron Kangas published in 1976 by Living Stream Ministry that:

• defines the heresies of modalism and tritheism and outlines their historical development,
• describes historical attempts to balance these heretical extremes;
• examines the principle of the twofoldness of divine truth as it applies to the Divine Trinity,
• presents the need to use the Bible as the standard for understanding the Trinity,
• gives a clear presentation of the basic truths concerning the Triune God from the Scriptures, and
• explains what the biblical revelation of the Triune God means to the believers’ Christian experience.