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The Oneness or the “Jesus Only” doctrine which most message believers follow is a denial of the distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It accepts the truth that there is only one true God, and that the Father, Son, and Spirit are fully God, but it denies that the Bible differentiates between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Instead, advocates of this position either believe that the Father is the Son, and the Son is the Spirit, and the Spirit is the Father (the old actor on the stage example, wearing different masks to “play” different parts, but always being the same person), or they make the Son merely the “human nature” of Christ (hence denying His eternal nature). Jesus then becomes two “persons,” the Father and the Son, the Father being the deity, the Son the human nature.

Scripture leaves no room for confusing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  As John taught:

:''No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), 1 Jn 2:23.</ref>
This passage not only clearly differentiates between the Father and the Son, but it warns us how important God considers the truth about His nature.