Christ be acknowledged with consistency. And, for most Oneness Pentecostals, being consistent on this point is one of the necessary prerequisites for salvation itself (see, for example, Sabin, III, 1). The prolific Oneness writer David Bernard expresses the logic involved here when he writes concerning the fatherhood of Christ, “If there is only one God and that God is the Father (Mal. 2:10), and if Jesus is God, then it logically follows that Jesus is the Father” (Bernard, Oneness, 66; cf. Graves,
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