re question jesus alone oneness in article apr geneva rutgers edu bjorn b larsen delab sintef no a writes can anybody tell me the basic reasons for holding a belief that there is only jesus and vice versa the foundations for the trinity bjorn i d love to know how jesus only proponents would answer questions like who is this father jesus keeps referring to why does he call himself the son why does he pray to the father and not to himself why does he emphasize that he does his father s will and not his own if he was doing his own will what kind of example is that should we follow it when he says he has to return to the father who is he going to when he says he does this in order that the comforter the holy spirit might come who might that be if he claims that the coming of the holy spirit is such a blessing that it s worth his leaving us and returning to the father what can that mean if there is no holy spirit why doesn t the best known christian prayer begin our saviour who art in heaven rather than our father do they have answers to these questions that are even plausible further entertaining queries are left as an exercise to the reader drt david r tucker kg s drt athena mit edu there may be some misunderstanding over terms here i believe jesus only originally was in the context of baptism these are folks who believe that baptism should be done with a formula mentioning only jesus rather than father son and holy spirit this may have doctrinal implications but as far as i know it does not mean that these folks deny the existence or divinity of the father i m not the right one to describe this theology and in fact i think there may be several including what would classically be called monophysite or arian two rather different views as well as some who have beliefs that are probably consistent with trinitarian standards but who won t use trinitarian language because they misunderstand it or simply because it is not biblical clh
