Sabellianism
Sabellianism is the name of an ancient Christian cult founded by a teacher named Sabellius in the third century CE. Sabellius proposed an idea of modalism which states that the Trinity being perceived as three persons is not orthodox and is basically an idea that Christians copied. Sabellianism refers to the Trinity in a variety of ways. Some Sabellians refer to the Trinity as One God who is existent in three manifestations but comprises only one person. Modern Sabellianism is also known as Unitarianism. Unitarianism is existent in Afro-Apostolic and United Pentecostal Churches. This doctrine states that God is one person who at different times reveals himself in different forms. Modern Sabellianism was founded by William Ellery Channing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The belief leads not only to a contradiction of the Trinity but also a contradiction of the doctrine of the atonement in the Christian canon. The belief leads to the idea that a person must be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the initial physical evidence of speaking in tongues in order to be saved. The moden Sabellian group also has added the creed that you can not be saved unless you are literally physically baptized in water. The belief was popularized in Europe by Michael Servetus who was burned at the stake for the heresy. In 1916, the United Pentecostal Churches and the African-Apostolics broke off from the Assemblies of God movement over the issue of the Trinity.
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