Pentecostal Order of Salvation

If they were right, they would not be Pentecostals. They are off on everything in one way or another.

 

Sometimes no Church is best.

 

Wow, are you going to force me to defend Pentecostals? OK.

Are Pentecostals wrong on:

The inerrancy of the Bible?
The literal nature of the biblical accounts, like Christ's miracles?
The virgin birth of Christ?
The bodily resurrection and physical return of Christ?
The substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross?
The Trinity?
The existence of Heaven and Hell?

 

I was wondering what the WORLD was trying to be talked about, here.

"Hi, my soul has the same capability to 'work', or 'choose', or 'have faith', or 'believe', as a Laver FULL OF MY BLOOD does."

Try that.

Helpless, Helpless, Blood in a Laver.

That won't work.

 

If we have not been called we are not to seek the positions of those God has called. The gift of teaching requires the gift of knowledge and in many this is obviously missing. A person may have the gift of knowledge and not have the gift of teaching, but no one can have the gift of teaching without the gift of knowledge.

 

As a literalist I take Ephesians to mean that Christ, then apostles and prophets are the foundation “already laid.” Meaning the highest gift today is teaching. Those without this gift should not be in positions of authority that titles them as teaching elders. Everyone has a capacity to teach but the gift of teaching is the supernatural ability to turn the light on in a dimly lit room making the objects in that room vividly clear.

 

I would prefer the Baptist in dealing with the gifts of the Spirit above the Pentecostals. The absurdities of those who seek signs don’t require explanation from a good Baptist minister because he is a cessationist.

But I don’t agree with cessation. I simply am willing to teach that Apostleship and Prophecy have ceased and that of all of the 50 plus years of my born again experience, if seen Christians mumbling repetitive syllables, and have never once witnessed anyone use the gift of tongues anywhere on the earth.

 

Not on cessationism or infant baptism.

 

I have seen Pentecostals hug people in genuine friendship that most people would never touch, and the only church I was ever asked to leave because of how I was dressed was a Baptist Church (the same church that made the papers for having all the cars towed from their parking lot of the people that parked to watch a Saturday parade.)

There are some things that the Baptists, for all of their theological correctness, could learn from their “foolish” but loving and passionate Pentecostal fellow members of the Body of Christ.

 

Love bombing works. That's how I got sucked into Pentecostalism.

 

Major doctrines covered in the Ecumenical Creeds mainly.

 

yes, but their "love" also allows for heresy to be right there in their midst, and none oppose it!

 

Creeds and confessions are not inspired, only scriptures are!

 

Yet they encapsulate the inspired word. You write a creed every time you reflect on scripture. You contradict the Church in places. But the creeds have withstood the test of time.

 

Still not the source of theology and doctrines!

 

Prove them false or be found a liar.