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.

Pentecostal Oneness: Testing the Claims by Scripture. Pentecostal Oneness teaching, sometimes called “Jesus Only,” rejects the historic Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Instead, it insists that God exists only as Jesus, and that true baptism must be “in the name of Jesus” rather than in the triune formula of Matthew 28:19.

What The Bible Says About Baptism. For many Christians today, baptism has become little more than a symbolic ceremony—an occasion for celebration, a tradition to be checked off the list. In some churches, it is treated as an optional milestone rather than a central act of obedience.