@ 2:23:14 I don't think I caught it when we were going over the video of Edward's "'One can be used to express 'oneness'." Edward is actually contradicting himself from what we went over in his response video. I think Chris noticed it but I didn't really catch it at the time.
In his response video @8:43 he said, "I make the point that the essential issue is that when you say that Jesus Christ is the Father, you're teaching modalism. You're teaching 'oneness'. The central thing of modalism is 'oneness'. God is one person."
According to Edward, if you teach 'oneness' you are teaching modalism. But in his video about one meaning 'oneness' he says at the beginning "...but the oneness is supposed to be referring to as a 'unity' of one...the man and woman become one flesh. They haven't lost their identity as two separate persons, they've just been united as one."
And also when he is finishing quoting 1 Corinthians 6:16 @1:04, "Two persons who become one. Oneness. United together because of the unity..."
Also @3:17 he says, "Don't let these guys get you distracted by this idea of a singleness...There's a 'oneness' that we're talking about." And a little after he explains more about a married couple becoming one flesh he says @3:52, "The reality is that is clearly a point of 'oneness'. There's a 'oneness' in the trinity."
So Edward in one video condemns teaching 'oneness' as modalism, but in another video he starts teaching 'oneness' as Biblical and as a description of the trinity. Before, when I used to listen to this guy, it was contradictions like this that really confused me about what he actually teaches and it's what makes it so difficult to actually understand his doctrine. He can't stay consistent because he doesn't actually understand what he is talking about.
Continuing in his 'oneness' video:
@ 3:57 "And that's where we have the idea that all three persons are God, because they share a unity in that triune relationship that is unique... It's perfect unity...and that unity is seen as one. Not a singleness one. This idea of trying to force the idea of God into a single one is nonsense. You've got to recognize that there's a 'threeness' that are united as one. Just like here talking about 1 Corinthians 6:16...unite with a harlot...become one flesh."
So just like someone becomes one with a harlot, The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are united. If I were Edward I definitely would not have used that comparison. But either way, from what I understand of what he is saying, Edward is teaching tritheism. The Godhead consists of three Gods who are only "seen" as one group of three. Not a singular God like we were explaining in the video and proved from Scripture.
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
-Isaiah 45:5
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
-Isaiah 45:18
tritheism (n) : belief in three Gods, especially in the doctrine that the three persons of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) are three distinct Gods, each an independent center of consciousness and determination
(See 'tritheism', Random House Dictionary, 2019, [dictionary.com])
Like I was pointing out in the video, Edward believes that Father, Son and Holy Ghost are "each an independent center of consciousness and determination." Just like what we go over later in the video, Edward does not believe that God the Father created anything and only Jesus Christ created. That is because he believes in tritheism.
