The History of the N T Church age Part 181

1556 AD/ The Unitarian church:
Although there is no specific authority on convictions of Unitarian belief aside from rejection of the Trinity, the following beliefs are generally accepted

1. God / Unitarian or oneness belief, Reason, rational thought, science, and philosophy coexist with faith in God. They have liberal views of God, Jesus, the word and purpose of life.
2. Bible / the authors of the Bible were inspired by God, they were humans and therefore subject to human error. They believe that reason and belief are complementary and that religion and scince can co-exist and guide them in their understanding of nature and God. They have no creeds or dogmatic formulas.
3. Salvation by / Faith +works, can fall away, believe there is no hell, unbelievers will be put out of existence, some believe in a devil, some do not,
4. Baptism by / is for believers (helps save), by immersion, and the supper is symbolic
5. Church / Congregational polity, some ordain women, no gay marriage (yet), The life and teachings of Jesus Christ constitute the exemplar model for living one's own life. Free will:
"and that Human nature in its present condition is neither inherently corrupt nor depraved and is capable of both good and evil."
The traditional doctrines of predestination, eternal damnation, and the vicarious sacrifice and satisfaction theories of the Atonement are invalid because they malign God's character and veil the true nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
Although there is flexibility in the nuances of belief or basic truths for the individual Unitarian Christian, general principles of faith have been recognized as a way to bind the group in some commonality. They reject the doctrine of some Christian denominations that God chooses to redeem or save only those certain individuals that accept the creeds of, or affiliate with, a specific church or religion, from a common ruin or corruption of the mass of humanity.
In 1938, The Christian leader attributed "the religion of Jesus, not a religion about Jesus" to Unitarians, though the phrase was used earlier by Congregationalist Rollin Lynde Hartt in 1924 and earlier still by US President Thomas Jefferson.
So we need to ask, can you be a Unitarian or oneness, and still be saved.