was God. The Word is the thought, plan, or expression in the mind of God. That is how the Word could be with God and at the same time be God Himself." UPC Here Modalists show their true heretical colours! They openly take the identical heretical position the Christadelphians, who deny the deity of Christ take. United Pentecostals actually do not believe that Jesus, as the Son of God, existed prior to His incarnation! Jesus was merely a plan in God's mind and didn't really exist! This is called Logos-theology and is identical to what Christadelphians say about Jesus in Jn 1:1. "We should also note that the Greek word pros, translated here as "with, is translated as "pertaining to" in Hebrews 2:17 and 5:1. So the Word was with God in the sense of belonging to God and not in the sense of a separate person besides God." UPC Such intimate hair splitting of Greek violates the obvious meaning of John 1:1. UPC's are in the same camp as Jehovah's Witnesses who also argue from the Greek that Jn 1:1 should read, "and the word was " A " god". UPC's and Jw's are both dead wrong in their views and translation of the Greek! If Jn 1:1 should read, "in the beginning was the Word and the Word was pertaining to God and the Word was God." At least one reputable translation would render it such. Interesting that the United Pentecostal Church is also a "rabidly and blind"