The house
About
Why this ministry exists, who teaches here, and how we argue.
Why this house exists
The need
As a Oneness Apostolic, I have seen the need for apologetics in our movement. Scholars such as Dr. David K. Bernard have taken our doctrine into public debate, yet the movement is still attacked and called heretical, and many believers do not know how to defend what they believe when the objections come. That is why I started a YouTube channel, then an Instagram account, and now this site. One God Apologetics exists to equip believers and challenge skeptics with clear, biblical answers. We practice rigorous theology, respectful debate and robust polemics, to defend the faith and to proclaim Jesus Christ as the one true God.
Jonathan Mahaney
The teacher
Who teaches here
Founder, One God Apologetics
Jonathan Mahaney
Jonathan Mahaney is a Oneness Apostolic teacher and debater, and the founder of One God Apologetics. He came to debate through the questions every Apostolic eventually hears: three persons, Matthew 28:19, the eternal Son, and who Jesus was praying to. He watched the movement he loves called heretical, and he watched faithful believers go quiet when those questions came.
So he began answering them in public, first on YouTube and then in live debate, and he built this site to train others to do the same.
What he will do
- Argue from Scripture, with the text open and the Hebrew and Greek available.
- State an opponent’s position in its strongest form before answering it.
- Debate in public, under an agreed resolution, format and time limits.
- Correct the record when someone shows him an error and gives the source.
What he will not do
- Call Christians who hold a different view pagans or idolaters.
- Attack a person’s character instead of answering the person’s claims.
- Take the stage without a stated resolution and agreed rules.
- Edit a recording to make an opponent look worse.
How we argue
Four rules
Every page on this site, and every debate we accept, follows the same four rules.
- Scripture interprets Scripture. We do not settle a text with a creed. We read it in context and let the clearer passages govern the harder ones.
- Hebrew and Greek on the table. Where a word carries the argument, we show the original, the lexicon and the reference, so anyone can check it.
- Opponents get their strongest form. Before we answer a Trinitarian, a Muslim or a skeptic, we state the view as its best defenders would.
- We will meet in public. Arguments are tested where others can watch, under a stated resolution, a fair format and a clock.
The house
One foundation
- The AcademyLearn the case. Paths, lessons, verse work and objection drills, with your progress saved as you go.Enter
- The ArenaMake the case. Request a formal debate with a resolution, a format and rules, and follow every engagement on the public board.Enter
- The LibraryRead the case. The arguments in full, typeset and cited, free for anyone to read.Enter
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