Welcome to another episode of Apostolic Life in the 21st Century. As always, we are always

thrilled to have you join us for these episodes. And we hear a lot of feedback from our audience

members about how beneficial you find these. So please keep sending that feedback and

please keep watching and listening. Dr. Bernard, one of the questions that are the question that

we're going to ask you today is a popular one that I see pops up a lot in the comments on

YouTube and other places. And the person that I first read this argument from was C.S. Lewis in his book,

Mere Christianity, which you cited as being a book that you really enjoyed.

But Lewis makes an argument for the doctrine of the Trinity based on 1 John 4-8.

That is the verse that says, God is love.

And here's what Lewis wrote.

Lewis wrote, the words, God is love, have no real meaning

unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another

person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, he was not love. This is

obviously a popular argument that has been echoed by a lot of

Trinitarian writers. How do Oneness Pentecostals respond to this line of reasoning? This is a very

interesting, and at least on the surface, it seems to be a pretty strong argument, but as we look at it carefully, I think we see some fundamental

flaws. And my first point would be simply this. It's a philosophical argument, not a scriptural

argument. Nowhere does the Bible actually make this argument. So we, as apostolics, as one is Pentecosts,

we base our teaching on the Word of God.

We go to the Bible.

And for us, what the Bible says trumps any kind of philosophical reasoning.

And so we read Deuteronomy 6-4, Here O Israel.

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