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==Derivation from a Oneness Christology==
==Derivation from a Oneness Christology==


Questions like these stem from a lingering adherence to message theology which was strongly influenced by the Oneness Pentecostal movement.
When I left the message, I discarded everything that I had been taught while in the message.  I started from scratch and decided to fully embrace "confessional orthodoxy" - the doctrines which the church has always believed.
 
If one leaves the message and does not  re-examine all of their "message tainted" beliefs, there will be a tendency to be at odds with some of the beliefs that the church has always held.  Because message theology was strongly influenced by the Oneness Pentecostal movement, there is a tendency to hold onto some of those same beliefs.


According to oneness teaching, the only valid baptism is in “Jesus’ name” and not “in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Trinitarian baptism is seen as a Roman Catholic error that was forced on the church in the Nicean Creed in A.D. 325. Therefore, anyone who received Trinitarian baptism was not fully Christian.<ref>Vinson Synan, The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), 141.</ref>
According to oneness teaching, the only valid baptism is in “Jesus’ name” and not “in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Trinitarian baptism is seen as a Roman Catholic error that was forced on the church in the Nicean Creed in A.D. 325. Therefore, anyone who received Trinitarian baptism was not fully Christian.<ref>Vinson Synan, The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), 141.</ref>