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Here is the verse which the Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance about those who deny the special Trinitarian relationship between Father and Son:
1Jn 2:22 ......... He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Gill (1697-1771 ) writes (relevant parts in bold):
He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son: that denies the Father of Christ to be the Creator of the world, but asserts that it was made by angels, as some ancient heretics did; or that the Father of Christ is not the God of the Old Testament, as Marcion; or that denies that God is the Father of Christ, and that Christ is the Son of God; who will not allow that there is any such relation in nature between them; who affirm that Christ is only the Son of God by adoption, or because of his love to him, or because of his incarnation and resurrection from the dead; or that he is not his true and proper Son, only in a figurative and metaphorical sense; that he is not the natural and eternally begotten Son of God, only by office, and as Mediator, and that God is only his Father, as having installed him into an office; or he that denies that these two are distinct from each other, but affirms that Father is the Son, and the Son is the Father, and so confounds them both, and, by confounding both, denies that there are either Father or Son; and all such persons are antichrists, or opposers of Christ.
1Jn 2:22 ......... He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Gill (1697-1771 ) writes (relevant parts in bold):
He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son: that denies the Father of Christ to be the Creator of the world, but asserts that it was made by angels, as some ancient heretics did; or that the Father of Christ is not the God of the Old Testament, as Marcion; or that denies that God is the Father of Christ, and that Christ is the Son of God; who will not allow that there is any such relation in nature between them; who affirm that Christ is only the Son of God by adoption, or because of his love to him, or because of his incarnation and resurrection from the dead; or that he is not his true and proper Son, only in a figurative and metaphorical sense; that he is not the natural and eternally begotten Son of God, only by office, and as Mediator, and that God is only his Father, as having installed him into an office; or he that denies that these two are distinct from each other, but affirms that Father is the Son, and the Son is the Father, and so confounds them both, and, by confounding both, denies that there are either Father or Son; and all such persons are antichrists, or opposers of Christ.
Either 'Gill' dosen't know the definition of 'distinct' or he is in error.
'The Son of man' or the 'Son of God', or the 'second Adam', or the 'High Priest'? how many of these titles are 'distinctions', well churchman they are distinct as far as titles. Gill seperates God! Unbelievable that's impossible but here you have some little church body has divided God into 3 compartments, how foolish, there is only one God!