CUL:UPC believes in the Trinity?  by Ronals Enroth

   The November 1987 issue of Moody Monthly contained several articles
on the cults. These articles by noted discernment authors discussed the
Mormons, the Unification Church, the New Age Movement, and the United
Pentecostal Church. Noted charismatic author, Jamie Buckingham, in the
January 1988 issue of Charisma & Christian Life called the authors of
the Moody Monthly articles "heresy hunters" and likened them to
"sharks" and defended the United Pentecostal Church. He stated: "My UPC
friends, who disdain the term 'Jesus Only, ' tell me they really do
believe in the Trinity."

   Is Jamie Buckingham correct? Does the UPC believe in the Trinity?
Thomas Weisser, a UPC minister, wrote in After the Way Called Heresy:
"Damnable heresies started entering in. The greatest of these is the
Trinitarian Doctrine. This doctrine is not found in Scripture!...Its
wording was borrowed from paganism" (page 4). Dr. Enroth questioned
Charisma: "Is he [Jamie Buckingham] familiar with that church's version
of the Doxology: 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, God is ONE
person; there is no Trinity. Amen.'?"

   If Jamie Buckingham does not do deeper studies into those he
defends, he may next be endorsing the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons,
or New Age Channelers!

   (Dr. Ronald Enroth and C.F. Staff) The Colossian Fellowship P.O. Box
12933

   Seattle, Wa., U.S.A. 98111
