Many Athenasian Trinitarians try to claim that their belief is not "modalism" by narrowly defining the modalist view as what is actually the more specific Sabellian Modalism as ’God represented through three identities at separate times ’ in order to dissemble and weaken the claim. (This dissembling is not usually purposeful, but is the result of seminary indoctrination.) However, modalism does not actually require that he represents himself at 3 different times. Only Sabellian Modalism has that requirement. Just because the Sabellian form of modalism is the first does not make it the only form. Saying that God is 3 co-equal personages in one substance does nothing to distinguish the Trinity from modalism, but adds a tritheistic element that fogs up the issue. What is rather clumsily labeled "non-modal non-tritheistic" is actually just a merging of modalism and tritheism into what has been dubbed "tri-modalism" by some. The tritheism aspect is to say t...
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