If you’ve been following my blog for a few years, you will know that the PAOC has been in a process of refreshing its Statement of Fundamental and Essential Truths (SOFET). While some changes have been made as recently as 2014, such a project has not been undertaken since 1980.
I have served on the PAOC’s Theological Study Commission for some years and have participated in drafting and editing the refreshed SOFET. It was due for a vote in 2020 at the PAOC General Conference, but was delayed for obvious reasons. Now the plan is to vote in May of 2022. As we prepare for the vote, we have been publishing some brief articles reflecting on the proposed SOFET. You can view my article on the Trinity by clicking on the image to the left.
Interestingly enough, when the PAOC first published a SOFET in 1928, 29 per cent was devoted to the doctrine of the Trinity. The section is much shorter today, but the PAOC still affirms the doctrine. As I write in the article, “without the Trinity, you have no gospel.”
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Andrew K. Gabriel, Ph.D., is the author of Simply Spirit-Filled: Experiencing God in the Presence and Power of the Holy Spirit as well as three academic books, including The Lord is the Spirit. He is a theology professor at Horizon College and Seminary and serves on the Theological Study Commission for the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. You can follow him on Facebook or on Twitter.
Thanks for this Andrew. The article contained some important reminders about the importance of seeing God as triune and why we do it and what would be lost if we didn’t.
In the Spirit I feel I can sometimes hear the voice of Jesus through promises of hope, “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Isa 46:4 The trinity sort of reminds me of 1 Cor 13:13 “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” God the Father is love since He’s the Greatest maybe Jesus is like hope and Holy Spirit of truth is Faith, they can’t really be separated but they are all one and separately the same. Our only hope is in Jesus and the Spirit’s Faithfulness to the trinity keeps us in God’s Love! Wow! 😆 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Rom 15:13 I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ reveal a new facet of God’s all-encompassing Love to you this year as you move toward Him in Love and Trust so that you may catch a Holy Fire in your heart for Him as you continue to do His work in Jesus Mighty name amen