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

Sabellianism: Modalism Revived in Oneness Pentecostalism. False teachings rarely die; they recycle themselves in new clothes. What the early church called Sabellianism or Modalism is now repackaged in modern Pentecostal Oneness movements. Both reject the biblical Trinity, claiming that Father, Son, and Spirit are not distinct Persons but only different manifestations of the one God. This distortion robs the gospel of its depth and misrepresents the God who saves.