Calvinism And Modalism

Christian Theologians use common terminology in reference to the history of the Trinity. Calvinism and Modalism are two of those common schools of thought. Many believers expose one of these beliefs even if unfamiliar with the words.. However, many do not explore the positions held in reference to the history of the men exclaiming these differences. Letham (2004) examines John Calvin’s position, “…God is not truly known unless he is distinctly conceived as triune, and that the fruit of baptism is that God the Father adopts us in his son and through the Spirit re-forms us into righteousness” (p. 254). On the contrary, Modalism beliefs blur the evidence of the eternal God as real and distinct in the three persons of the Godhead (Letham, 2004,
He often refers to the Old and New Testaments in support of Christ’s eternal deity (Letham, 2004, p. 255). Letham further explains, “The deity of both the son and the Spirit is the same as that of the Father, he insists” (p. 255). Understanding this idea gives way to understand Calvinism is the belief there never is gradation in the Godhead or any other part of the Trinity (Letham, 2004, p. 255).
This is why Jesus will return the Kingdom back to God via relinquishing a human governorship as it now back to a glorious divinity (Letham, 2004, p. 255). God of himself is the stance of Calvinism asserting the notion that the Son, Jesus the Christ, is God and thus the originator of His own deity (p. 256). Letham further clarifies, “On the premise of the orthodox Trinitarian teaching that God is one and indivisible, it follow that all three persons share in the one identical and undivided being of God (p. 257).
The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, or the Comforter is also a word we use to declare part of the office of the Christ. Calvinism supports this claim and teaches Christ still performs this activity through the Holy Spirit (Letham, 2004, p. 263). Calvinism asserts that the interconnectedness of the Trinity sharing complete roles and equal roles in one being of God (Letham, 2004, p.
That is contrary to the power they all possess as one triune being. They are one in concept and activity. Packer (1993) asserts, “The first is that he is king-absolute monarch of the universe, ordering all of its affairs, working out his will in all that happens within it” (p. 108). God is not making new decisions, as He is continual. He initiates time, Genesis 1:1 (NIV) states, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”. Further, Genesis offers the completeness of God’s presentation to us saying, “Let us make mankind…” (Genesis 1:26, NIV). God did not have a notion or thought of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They are active before our understanding of creation, meaning before time