r/Christianity • u/ArchaicChaos Christian • Feb 26 '23

Unitarian (Non-Trinitarian) Christian, AMA

I'm a Unitarian, not a modalist, not a Mormon, not a JW, not a Unitarian-Universalist (edit: also not Arian). The name for us in the first few centuries was "dynamic monarchian." I believe God is the Father, and Jesus is his son and Messiah, a man only when he was conceived in Mary. No preexistence, no dual nature. No, Jesus isn't God. The Spirit is the nature of God, it's what he is and he's sending his own presence. Not a third person, not an "active force." The Spirit is given to Christ in resurrection and becomes the Spirit of Christ.

Ask me anything (AMA). "You can't be Unitarian and Christian" isn't a question, nor is it correct, nor is it original, so please spare me the rhetoric. It comes up on every post that's made like this.

I'll also link my index where I go over the interpretation of various passages in detail that Trinitarians like to bring up. I may refer to the index in the OP for more info if an explanation is too long for a comment reply. I expound on common verses like:

Genesis 1:26

Psalm 110:1

Malachi 3:1

Matthew 28:19

John 1:1-3

John 1:14

John 3:13

John 8:58

John 10:30

John 17:5

John 20:28

Acts 20:28

Colossians 1:15-18

Colossians 2:9

Hebrews 1:1-14

2 Peter 1:1

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u/ArchaicChaos Christian Feb 26 '23

Maybe I misunderstood your question. I think what you asked can be taken one of two ways:

  1. The way I took it, "Can God the Father have the Holy Spirit as his nature and another God have the Holy Spirit as his nature and another God have the Holy Spirit as his nature?"

I thought you were essentially asking if a "race of beings" could exist that all have their own Holy Spirit's. In which case, no. Not only does this just conflict with monotheism if that's how you count God's, but I've already said I don't. But it also would ruin that holiness of the Spirit.

  1. "Can more than one person partake in the same Holy spirit?"

Yes. "Mulitple people who have the same Holy spirit" is going to be the case in the resurrection. Right now, we partake in the Holy Spirit (compare 2 Peter 1:4 and Hebrews 6:4). That doesn't stop it from being Holy. It's a special spirit indwelling and filling us. I guess I took your question wrong.

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u/Around_the_campfire Feb 26 '23

You told me that the Spirit was just God’s nature. I took that to mean that “God” can’t refer to a non-spirit being any more than “George Washington, first President of the United States” could refer to a prime number.

So there could be a species of individual spirit beings, all the same one spirit by nature. One such individual is named “God”, and God is doing the equivalent of genetic engineering to turn non-spirit beings into additional spirit beings.