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In this special episode of the trinities podcast current board members of the UCA discuss our vision for this new parachurch organization.
Sean Finnegan, Kegan Chandler, Mark Cain and I discuss:
- our choice of name
- the UCA Affirmation, and why it’s so short
- what the UCA is and is not, and why it is not in competition with the various unitarian churches, denominations, and ministries
- some of the needs we hope to meet and some of the kinds of people and groups we hope to serve
- the unique functions of our website, intended to connect unitarian Christians with one another
- our plan to have our first conference
- why you should join and support the UCA
Are you a unitarian Christian? If so, please join the UCA and stand together with us. And after you create your personal profile please (with the consent of its leadership) create a Group profile for your church, house church, or Bible study.
A special thanks to Mark Cain for editing this episode.
Links for this episode:
- Unitarian Christian Alliance
- UCA’s Frequently Asked Questions
- UCA Facebook Group
- UCA official Twitter
- Restitutio podcast (their version of this episode)
- Interview 8: A Restorationist Discovers the God of Jesus (Kegan Chandler)
- Kegan Chandler’s blog Buried Deep
- Living Hope International Ministries
- Church of The Open Bible
- Higher Ground Church
- Church of God General Conference
- Restoration Fellowship
- Christadelphia Worldwide
- Spirit and Truth Fellowship International
- The Worldwide Scattered Brethren Network
- Christian monotheism
- Why the Trinity Doctrine Doesn’t Make Sense: Five Reasons
- podcast 256 – Aaron Shelenberger, from trinitarian to unitarian – Part 3
- podcast 255 – Aaron Shelenberger, from trinitarian to unitarian – Part 2
- podcast 254 – Aaron Shelenberger, from trinitarian to unitarian – Part 1
- podcast 253 – The Apostle Paul a Unitarian
- podcast 248 – How Trinity theories conflict with the Bible
- podcast 247 – Kegan Chandler on the term “homoousios”
- podcast 232 – Trinity Club Orientation
- podcast 226 – Biblical Words for God and for his Son Part 3 – post-biblical uses of biblical words, and new words
- podcast 225 – Biblical Words for God and for his Son Part 2 – Old “Lord” vs. New “Lord”
- podcast 224 – Biblical Words for God and for his Son Part 1 – God and “God” in the Bible
- podcast 191 – Ware’s Outline of the Testimony of Scripture Against the Trinity
- podcast 190 – What is the Trinity? A triad of book reviews
- podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation
- podcast 168 – The Death of Unitarian Congregationalism
- podcast 167 – Lamson’s History of The Unitarian Congregationalists
- podcast 140 – Pastor J. Dan Gill’s The One
- podcast 85 – Heretic! Four Approaches to Dropping H-Bombs
- This week’s thinking music is “Baldanders Strikes The Set” by Doctor Turtle.
Related posts:
podcast 84 - Dr. William Vallicella on Existence and God
podcast 247 - Kegan Chandler on the term "homoousios"
podcast 16 - How is Jesus "the one Lord"?
What is idolatry?
podcast 224 - Biblical Words for God and for his Son Part 1 - God and “God” in the Bible
podcast 65 - Dr. Joshua Blander on John Duns Scotus on Identity and Distinction
podcast 314 - 10 Fundamental Questions about the Trinity
podcast 266 - Andrew Davis on church history, the Trinity, and modalism - Part 1
podcast 292 - New vs. Old "Beginning" - Two Interpretations of John 1
podcast 371 - Dr. Steven Nemes on divine Christology in the New Testament
Jesus is NOT ALONE now, also the Spirit of God is now here. But a spirit is someone who does NOT EXIST ( see https://youtu.be/N-tAf-ci8d0 ). The Trinity is in reality a DUALITY. The almighty God cannot be here for logical reasons, this is why He is in the PAST (perfectly almighty from there) “the world has not known you”. Thus, He can be present here now only in the form of a spirit. This is why in the Creation everything has been PERSONALLY made by Him (water, stars…) and now it’s NOT POSSIBLE anymore (everything is now made by his Spirit). His Spirit is NO “THIRD God-Person”, is the Spirit of God HIMSELF ! “God is a spirit”. Didn’t you notice that neither the Father nor the Son EVER TALK to an alleged “THIRD God-Person”? “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” Thus, just TWO GOD-PERSONS, TWO THRONES in heaven. God is in the past, all sentences regarding his Person refer to the past , “You lovED me BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN”). Only then that happened, in the past, NO LOVE from the almighty God beyond that point of time ! When Jesus was baptized the Spirit of God, that is “God who is a spirit” simply said “…my beloved Son…”, that’s all. “Holy Spirit” and the “Spirit of God” are synonyms (see the gospels).
Any Christian Unitarians in Northern California?
Hey Ryan – the way to find out is to get yourself a free account at https://www.unitarianchristianalliance.org/ When you sign up, give us a real email and zip code, and then the directory will sort itself by proximity to you (I’m assuming you’re in Northern CA). And when you’re logged on, you can contact people through a web form, and they can contact you. So God willing, as time goes on, you’ll be able to make connections with local unitarian Christians.
Other than Dale’s excellent blog, what other blogs put out quality commentary on Biblical Unitarianism?
Alex,
If you go to the UCA’s website and look they have a list that is a great start.
https://www.unitarianchristianalliance.org/resources/
Hey Dale,
I wanted to check on the UCA’s affirmation statement. The statement and podcast both seem to affirm that specifically Biblical Unitarianism must be affirmed in order to be a part of the alliance (I gather this to be the intended meaning behind affirming Jesus as God’s “human Messiah.”) This would mean subordinationist and “Arian” Unitarianism would disqualify those Christians from being a part of the alliance? (If so, I very much understand, just want to make sure).
As always, thank you for all your years of work on this and other subjects. I owe a huge debt of knowledge to you.
I’m also unsure about this… Are subordinationists allowed to join or not?
The phrasing of the statement itself seems to rule this out, but in several places of the podcast you guys seem to imply the opposite.
Thanks in advance!
I just went to the FAQs and found this which seems to indicate that all kinds of Unitarian Christians are welcome. The first two subheadings are what you’re looking for.
https://www.unitarianchristianalliance.org/faq/
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