UPC BELIEVES IN THE TRINITY?  

   The November 1987 issue of Moody Monthly contained several articles 
on the cults.  These articles by noted discernment authors discussed 
the Mormons, the Unification Church, the New Age Movement, and the 
United Pentecostal Church.  Noted charismatic author, Jamie Buckingham, 
in the January 1988 issue of Charisma & Christian Life called the authors 
of the Moody Monthly articles "heresy hunters" and likened them to 
"sharks" and defended the United Pentecostal Church.  He stated: "My 
UPC friends, who disdain the term 'Jesus Only, ' tell me they really do 
believe in the  Trinity."

   Is Jamie Buckingham correct? Does the UPC believe in the Trinity? 
Thomas Weisser, a UPC minister, wrote in After the Way Called Heresy: 
"Damnable heresies started entering in.  The greatest of these is the  
Trinitarian Doctrine.  This doctrine is not found in Scripture!...Its 
wording was borrowed from paganism" (page 4).  Dr. Enroth questioned 
Charisma: "Is he [Jamie Buckingham] familiar with that church's version 
of the Doxology: 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, God is ONE 
person;  there is no Trinity.  Amen.'?"

   If Jamie Buckingham does not do deeper studies into those he 
defends,  he may next be endorsing the Jehovah's Witnesses, the 
Mormons, or New Age Channelers!

   (Dr.  Ronald Enroth and C.F. Staff)  The Colossian Fellowship  P.O.  
Box 12933

   Seattle, Wa., U.S.A.  98111