Modalism: One God, Three Roles—or a Distortion of the Trinity? Christians confess one God who eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But from the early centuries of the church, some rejected this truth and proposed an easier explanation: that God is one Person who merely appears in different forms or modes. This teaching, known as Modalism, may sound simple, but it is dangerously misleading. It strips the Trinity of its eternal relationships and empties the gospel

There is no biblical warning more frequent in the New Testament than the warning against false teachers. This isn’t just an occasional cautionary tale; it is the very context into which much of the New Testament was written. Jesus warned about them explicitly. Paul named names. Jude devoted an entire letter to them. Peter said they were coming. John wrote to expose their denial of Christ in the flesh.