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Patripassianism an accusation against the Modalistic Monarchians made by Cyprian .[1]. The Monarchians taught the unity of the Godhead in Christ and that as the Son suffered the Father also experieced the sufferings. It is not true that the Modalist taught the Father died and not the Son. And it is not true they taught the Father died in the place of the Son or as the Son. These accusations are made my Trinitarians who either do not understand the true teachings of the Patripassians, or they present their own constructios upon the name to turn converts away from Oneness theology. These are orthodox contary to the claim they are unorthodox teaching about the Christian God Jesus.

This was not a heresy as even those labeled Popes have held this belief: Kallistos (also known as Calixtus) "tried to find a compromise formula in this Christological confusion. Father, Son, and Logos (Holy Spirit) he held, are all names of "one indivisible spirit." Yet Son is also the proper designation of that which was visible, Jesus; while the Father was the spirit in him. This presence of the Father in Jesus is the Logos. Kallistos was positive that the Father did not suffer (die) on the cross but suffered with the sufferings of the Son, Jesus." .[2].

These issues were debated between those presenting the neo-platoism Logos Christology, those presenting Dynamic Monarchianism, and those defending Modalistic Monarchianism. .[3]. It was the writings of Tertullian and Athanisius that turned the Christian world from Modalistic Monarchianism to that of Trinitarianism of the division of the Godhead into three separate persons, each of the same substance, that forced the Modalist Monarchians to flee from Rome (Ibid).

Modalism, teaches there is only one God, who appears in three different modes (as opposed to the neo-Platoism trinitarian teaching that there is one God, who exists in three persons).

Patripassianism comes from the Latin, and means "the father suffers." The name refers to the teaching that God the Father suffered on the cross with Son — since the Father was in the Son and there was present in Jesus two modes of the same God. Patripassianism has been called Sabellianism, Oneness, Modalistic.

Oneness Pentecostalism

Modern theologians have asserted that Oneness Pentecostalism must confess patripassianism. According to Dr. Gary Reckart, Sr. an Apostolic Messianic : "If as Oneness believe, that God the Father was incarnate in Christ, which Jesus confessed ("it is the Father in me that doeth the work"), the Father was in Christ during all of the sufferings and being nailed to the cross. Thus the Father did suffer or experience the sufferings of the Son up to the time the Father departed from the body". Dr. Reckart emphasis that Oneness do not believe nor did the ancient Patripassians, that the Father died on the cross as the Son, nor that the Father died to replace the death of the Son.

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  1. ^ Williston Walker, History of the Christian Church, Page 73, Charles Scribner's Sons 1949
  2. ^ Williston Walker, History of the Christian Church, Page 72-75, Charles Scribner's Sons 1949
  3. ^ Williston Walker, History of the Christian Church, Page 73, Charles Scribner's Sons 1949
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