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This was the first blog concerning your journey “out” of Egypt that I’ve read.
I can relate to your alluding to being accused of leaving due to academia. It was not academia that led me out of the oneness organization I was licensed in (though of this I was accused), but the inconsistent application of scriptures, the eisegesic methods employed to develop “doctrine”, extra-biblical requirements to “please God” and the pastor/emperor complex of the local church. Interesting that you title this series of blogs “exiting oneness”, since there are old-timers in oneness that used the terms manifestations and persons interchangeably. Are you speaking in general terms or more specifically about a denominational system? Just curious.
@Dale: My time amongst Oneness Pentecostals was in the UPCI. I know there are some who interchanged the two terms, but they were a minority and some would discount them as “orthodox” Oneness Pentecostals.
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