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'''Modalism''' is a form of the [[heresy]] of [[Monarchianism]] that appears in a number of variations in the second and third centuries. Modalism is also known as [[Sabellianism]] and PatripassionismPatripassianism.
Modalism expresses a denial of the [[Holy Trinity|Trinity]] by stating that God is a single person who has revealed himself in three forms, or modes. The belief is that during [[Old Testament]] times in biblical history God manifested himself in the mode of the Father. Then, at his incarnation as Jesus he revealed himself as the Son, and then, after Jesus’ ascension, he revealed himself in the mode of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The modes appeared successively and never simultaneously and never existed as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at the same time. In this, Modalism denies the fundamental distinctiveness and coexistence of the three persons of the Trinity.
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