I hope this question is not offensive.

[ChristineES]

Can someone please let me know which demoninations don't believe in the Trinity? I used to think that all except for a few demoninations believed in The Trinity, but I see by posting and reading here that I was mistaken. I know that the Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in The Trinity. But what about the others. You can either answer on this thread or PM me. It would be appreciated.
I don't want to start another debate on this subject, however.

 

[protos]

Oneness Pentecostals
LDS - I think...

Maybe a google search should clear it up.

 

[mutzrein]

Goodness - a strange mix. I have no idea what the official stand of the church I meet with is. They are drawn from a variety of backgrounds - brethren (don't think they do), baptist (some do), apostolic (they do) that I know of.

And of course no offense taken.

 

[Solo]

According to the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarian

Nontrinitarian groups

Monarchianism
Arianism
Socinianism
Deism
Unitarian Christians
American Unitarian Conference
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Mormon)
Living Church of God
Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship*
Magi Network*
Church of Christ, Scientist
Oneness Pentecostals
Jehovah's Witnesses
Unification Church
Christadelphians
Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith)
Polish Brethren
Doukhobors
Molokan
The Way International
Gospel Assembly Church

* Independent affiliates of the Unitarian Universalist Association

Other groups which reject the Trinity doctrine

Iglesia ni Cristo
True Jesus Church

Nontrinitarian people

Natalius[1], ~200
Paul of Samosata, 269
Arius, 336
Constantius II, Byzantine Emperor, 361
Antipope Felix II, 365
Aëtius, 367
Ulfilas, Apostle to the Goths, 383
Muhammad, 632, see also Isa
Ludwig Haetzer, 1529
Michael Servetus, 1553, burned at the stake in Geneva under John Calvin
Ferenc Dávid, 1579
Fausto Paolo Sozzini, 1604
John Biddle, 1662
John Locke, 1704
Isaac Newton, 1727
William Whiston, 1752
Jonathan Mayhew, 1766
Benjamin Franklin, 1790
Joseph Priestley, 1804
Joseph Smith, 1805
Thomas Paine, 1809
Thomas Jefferson, 1826
James Madison, 1836
William Ellery Channing, 1842
Robert Hibbert, 1849
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1882
James Martineau, 1900
Charles Taze Russell, 1916
Neville Chamberlain, 1940
William Branham, 1965
Herbert W. Armstrong, 1986

 

[mutzrein]

btw how may sorts of pentecostals are there? If there are oneness pentecostals presumably there are those that are not.

 

[Solo]

btw how may sorts of pentecostals are there? If there are oneness pentecostals presumably there are those that are not.

Oneness Pentecostals

These are exerpts from the book 'Who is Jesus '? Answering Oneness Pentecostals attacks on the Trinity. (spiral notebook from Let Us Reason ministries Wahiawa HI 96786)

Before reading: I don’t want to be perceived as someone angry nor vengeful; I reserve the right to be just as passionate and clever in my arguments as Oneness adherents are, but I do not want this to be misinterpreted as just an attack. I have painfully gone through numerous writings on their teachings , discussed it at great length with acquaintance’s and friends. I have also participated in 3 debates with them on salvation and the trinity. So I’m not a foreigner to their statements and understandings of the subjects. This book is mostly a rebuttal to D. Bernards book "the Oneness of God." Please read with an open heart and mind…

Introduction

The Christian church has become very familiar with anti-Trinitarian cults over the last 10-15 years. Jehovah's Witnesses who have over 8 million worldwide, Mormons who now have 10 million worldwide, Iglesia Ni christo, the Way International and numerous others are mostly enjoying growth. What has gone very much unnoticed by the church and is also enjoying growth is the Oneness Pentecostal / Apostolic church movement. Which now is the third largest anti-Trinitarian church in the world, having anywhere from 5-6 million or more adherents. Oneness Pentecostals are unique as far as being considered a cult. Much of what they say we could agree upon and they with us. Yet the very nature of God is at the center of this modern day controversy. Unlike other cults that deny the deity of Christ they affirm it, however they pour a new and unique way of defining it. Its not that this is something altogether new but actually something very ancient

What has been revived is the ancient Sabellian heresy that God is singular in person. This emerged in the 2nd century as another heretical competitor with Gnosticism which the church was currently contending against. Sabellianism did away with the eternal Son, and had the eternal Spirit take on modes under which he was called the Father, then the Son , then the Spirit. Sabellias taught that God was a divine monad who revealed himself to mankind by projecting himself into the father and the Spirit. God being only one at a time, became another for different dispensations of time. In the different dispensations the Father was the creator and the lawgiver, the Son was the redeemer, and the Spirit was the giver of grace. In the third century this evolved into Monarchianism which was a more sophisticated form of modalism (Sabellianism) and the church which 75 years before had thought they put an end to this, had to once again confront the errors on Gods nature. To the defenders who engaged in the doctrinal challenges this was not just another battle, but the battle. These were not passing clouds that the wind would one day blow away. It was in their hands to stand firm and with everything they could counter both logically and Biblically in defining Gods nature.

This article and further information concerning the Oneness Pentacostal theology can be found at http://www.letusreason.org/Onenes1.htm

 

[ChristineES]

Thank you for answering my question, I appreciate it.