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• Answering the questions does not guarantee that I will debate you.
• If we debate, you must use your real name or no debate.
• You can answer by saying “Affirm,” “Deny,” “Not applicable,” or provide a brief explanation.
• Updated on 11/15/2021, improved punctuation, sentence structure, and removed two redundant questions about Jesus.
• Updated on 9/2/2021, added questions to the “Sin and Salvation” section.
• Updated on 3/14/2022, added some questions.

Questions for oneness/unitarians

 

             PERSONHOOD

1. Do you agree or disagree that person/personhood includes self-awareness, awareness of others, speaking, thinking, having a will, memory, can say ‘you’ and ‘me,’ etc.?
2. If you disagree with the previous question, can you explain what personhood is?
3. Does the biblical God (i.e., Exodus 3:14-15) possess personhood?
   

   
   GOD

4. How do you define God as it relates to your oneness/unitarian position?
5. Though you disagree with the Trinity, does the Trinity doctrine teach that there are three gods?
6. Though you disagree with the Trinity, does the Trinity doctrine teach that there are three persons in one person?
7. Though you disagree with the Trinity, does the Trinity doctrine teach that there are three distinct and simultaneous persons in one God?
8. If you know, what is the systematic approach the Trinitarians use to conclude the Trinity doctrine?
9. What verse or verses do you believe refute the doctrine of the Trinity?
10. Was God in the mode/form of God in the Old Testament?
    1. lf necessary, please clarify your answer.
11. Was God in the mode/form of Jesus in the New Testament?
    1. lf necessary, please clarify your answer.
12. Is God now in the mode/form of the Holy Spirit?
    1. lf necessary, please clarify your answer.
13. What is the name of God (With Scripture references)?
    

    
    JESUS 

14. When Jesus was walking on the earth 2000 years ago, was he a person?
15. When Jesus was walking on the earth 2000 years ago, did he have two natures: divine and human?
16. When Jesus was walking on the earth 2000 years ago, did he have one nature?  If, was it human or divine?
17. When Jesus was walking on the earth 2000 years ago, did he speak as one person or two persons?
18. If you affirm that Jesus had two natures, did Jesus’ human nature ever speak while the divine nature was not speaking? If so, where in Scripture?
19. If you affirm that Jesus had two natures, did Jesus’ divine nature ever speak while the human nature was not speaking? If so, where in Scripture?
20. When Jesus was walking on the earth 2000 years ago, was He indwelt by God the Father?
21. Does Jesus presently have two natures: divine and human?
22. Is Jesus a man right now?
23. Does Jesus exist right now as a person?
24. If you affirm that Jesus exists right now as a person, does he possess both divine and human natures?
25. If you affirm that presently Jesus has one nature, which nature is it, human or divine?
26. If you deny that Jesus exists right now as a person, can you please clarify what happened to Him such that His personhood disappeared?
27. Is Jesus presently the same person as the Father?
28. If Jesus is not presently the same person as the Father, then who is He in relation to the Father?
29. Is Jesus presently the same person as the Holy Spirit?
30. Who was Jesus praying to in the Garden in Luke 22:42?
31. At Jesus’ baptism, when the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were all present, were they all the same person?
32. At the return of Christ, is it Jesus who returns?
33. If it is Jesus who returns, that is Jesus existing right now, is He a person in heaven?
    

    
    ATONEMENT

34. Did God the Father indwell the body of Jesus on the cross?
35. Did God the Father leave the body of Jesus before Jesus’ death on the cross?
36. If you affirm that only the human nature/side of Jesus died on the cross, then how is the sacrifice of divine value?
    

    
    SIN AND SALVATION

37. Do you agree or disagree that salvation is being delivered from the righteous judgment of God?
38. Do you agree or disagree that salvation includes being forgiven of all of our sins?
39. Do you agree or disagree that justification is being declared legally righteous according to the law?
40. Is it possible to lose one’s salvation?
41. If it is possible to lose one’s salvation, then what must a person do to lose it?
42. If it is possible to lose one’s salvation, then what must a person do to keep it?
43. If it is possible to lose one’s salvation, then is it possible to regain it?
44. If it is possible to regain one’s salvation, then what must a person do to regain it?
45. Is water baptism by immersion necessary for salvation?
46. Is water baptism by immersion with the formula of “In Jesus’ name” necessary for salvation?
47. If water baptism is not necessary for salvation, then what is necessary?
48. Would you please list out what a person must do to have his sins forgiven and be saved?
49. Jesus equated sin with legal debt (Matt. 6:12 & Luke 11:4). Do you agree or disagree that sin is, among other things, a legal debt?
50. Do you agree or disagree that Jesus canceled the sin debt at the cross (Col. 2:14)?
51. If you disagree that Jesus canceled the sin debt at the cross, then what was canceled/blotted out?
52. If you disagree that Jesus canceled the sin debt at the cross, then when is our sin canceled?
53. Do you agree or disagree that we are justified by faith (Rom. 5:1)?
54. Do you agree or disagree that God grants us faith (Phil. 1:29)?
55. Do you agree or disagree that when we have faith, we are justified (Rom. 5:1; 3:28; 4:5)?
    

    
    SCRIPTURES

56. In Exodus 3:14-15, God says that his name is “I am.” Do you agree or disagree the name of God is “I am” (YHWH)?
57. What is the name of the “Word” that was with God in John 1:1?
58. In Exodus 6:2-3, it says that God, who identified himself as YHWH, appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?  Do you agree or disagree that God Almighty appeared to Abraham Isaac and Jacob?
59. According to Jesus in John 6:46, no one has ever seen the Father. So, who were they seeing who is God Almighty but not God the Father in Exodus 6:2-3?
60. Jesus said in John 6:38, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” If Jesus is a person, and He said He was sent from heaven, then did He not have to preexist in order to be sent from heaven?
61. In John 14:23, Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” When Jesus says, “we,” who was He referring to?
62. In Genesis 11:7, God says, “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language.” In Genesis 1:26, God says, “Let us make man in our image.” In Isaiah 44:24, God says that he makes all things by himself, alone.  Why would God refer to himself in the plural in Genesis 11:7 and 1:26?
63. Why did Jesus not say, “Not My will, but My will be done?” if there was only one person and one will involved when He was praying in Luke 22:42 & Matt. 26:39.
64. Is Acts 2:38 a formula for salvation?
65. In Acts 10:44-48, the Gentiles were glorifying God, and speaking in tongues and had already received the Holy Spirit just as the apostles had. But, they had not yet been baptized. Were they not saved until they got baptized?