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A small booklet published in 1977 rebutting various false accusations by the Spiritual Counterfeits Project.

While it is common (and not wrong) to refer to the Three of the Divine Trinity as three “persons,” the term persons is problematic because it can lead to misunderstanding. This article examines whether Norman Geisler was justified in criticizing a statement of faith in the journal Affirmation & Critique because it did not explicitly use the word persons in its definition of the Trinity.

In a single paragraph in which Norman Geisler and Ron Rhodes errantly accused Witness Lee and the local churches of teaching the heresy of patripassianism, they misattributed and misrepresented three quotes.

A booklet by Ron Kangas published in 1976 by Living Stream Ministry that:

• defines the heresies of modalism and tritheism and outlines their historical development,
• describes historical attempts to balance these heretical extremes;
• examines the principle of the twofoldness of divine truth as it applies to the Divine Trinity,
• presents the need to use the Bible as the standard for understanding the Trinity,
• gives a clear presentation of the basic truths concerning the Triune God from the Scriptures, and
• explains what the biblical revelation of the Triune God means to the believers’ Christian experience.

A booklet by Witness Lee published in 1976 presenting the basics of his biblical teaching concerning the Triune God:

• God is uniquely one;
• God is triune—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, all Three:
  • being God,
  • being eternal,
  • co-existing simultaneously,
  • being one, and
  • being in the believers.

The booklet concludes with a section on the Triune God being a mystery beyond explanation and an appeal to accept the full biblical revelation of the Divine Trinity.