Modern Oneness Pentecostals aren’t naive Sabellians. They say the Son is the human nature and the Father the divine nature in Jesus, so the prayers are the human nature addressing the divine. Isn’t a third-century version being attacked instead of the live one?

A fair correction, and the modern version deserves engagement on its own terms. It still has to explain texts where the Son is a distinct agent before the incarnation (John 1:1 with God, John 17:5 glory with you before the world existed) and where the Spirit is sent by the Son. Splitting Jesus into a human nature that prays and a divine nature that listens also produces a Christ who is not one person, which is a different error the church rejected (Nestorianism). Naming the modern view and its specific difficulties is more persuasive than a historical label, and those are the difficulties.