Heb 10:5, speaking of Christ reads:
This is of christological importance as it shows that the persons of the Father and the Son are distinct from one another in a way that is incompatible with Oneness Pentecostal and other similar Christologies. Why? In this passage, the person of the Son speaks to another person, distinct from him, who prepared (κατηρτίσω, second person indicative aorist middle of καταρτιζω ["to prepare"]) the (σωμα) body of Christ--they are not one and the same person!
A question to be posted to proponents of Oneness Pentecostalism and others who hold to a form of Modalism should be asked--to whom did Christ address his words? Latter-day Saints, Trinitarians, and others do not have to strain the plain meaning of the text by arguing that the speaker and the addressee of this locution are the same person! Such is interpretive and theological nonsense.
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have ot desired, but a body you have prepared for me" (cf. Psa 40:6 [39:7, LXX])
This is of christological importance as it shows that the persons of the Father and the Son are distinct from one another in a way that is incompatible with Oneness Pentecostal and other similar Christologies. Why? In this passage, the person of the Son speaks to another person, distinct from him, who prepared (κατηρτίσω, second person indicative aorist middle of καταρτιζω ["to prepare"]) the (σωμα) body of Christ--they are not one and the same person!
A question to be posted to proponents of Oneness Pentecostalism and others who hold to a form of Modalism should be asked--to whom did Christ address his words? Latter-day Saints, Trinitarians, and others do not have to strain the plain meaning of the text by arguing that the speaker and the addressee of this locution are the same person! Such is interpretive and theological nonsense.
