A few questions for Onenesss Pentecostal believers!

A few years ago I was introduced to Onenesss Pentecostalism. As I began to discuss the deity of Christ with an expoused church member, I began to notice something unusual about their view concerning the nature of God. This prompted a few questions that I believe are valid and worthy of a response in order to determine if it falls within the “goalposts” of orthodox Christianity. 

1. Is Jesus His own Father?
2. If Jesus’ will and the Father’s will were identical, then why did Jesus express the desire to escape the cup but resigns Himself not to His own will, but the will of the Father? 
3. Was Jesus praying to Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane?
4. If Jesus was praying to the divine side of Himself, then isn’t He still praying to Himself?
5. Why was Jesus not saying, “Not My will, but MY will be done?” if there is only one person and one will involved when He was praying in Luke 22:42 & Matt. 26:39.
6. If baptism is essential for salvation, then what happens to someone who repents of sin, accepts Jesus as Savior, walks across the street to get baptized but is killed by a car.  Does he go to heaven or hell?
7. If he goes to heaven, then baptism isn’t a requirement is it?
8. If he goes to hell, then faith in Christ isn’t sufficient to save him is it?
9. Since the Bible teaches us that Jesus is in bodily form now (Col. 2:9), then how does the Oneness Pentecostal person maintain that God is in the form of the Holy Spirit?  Also, when Jesus returns, will He return in His body?  Will God’s form then revert to the form of the Son at a later date? 
10. If God is only one person, why did Jesus say in John 14:23, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”  If God is only one person, why does Jesus say, “we”?
11. Oneness theology teaches that God was in the mode of the Father in the Old Testament.  God was seen in the OT (not as a vision or a dream or an angel in the following verses:  Exo. 6:2-3; Gen. 19:24; Num. 12:6-8).  But, Jesus said no one has seen the Father (John 6:46).  If they were seeing God Almighty (Exo. 6:2-3) but it wasn’t the Father, then who was it?

This is a cross section of questions that should provoke some thought and give cause to consult Scripture. We must always test all things and hold fast that which is good. 1Th 5:21 This is a command to you, me and Christians in all denominations, whether we think we’re right or not!

God bless!

Jim Richardson