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To: Mr Rogers

What about whether “signs” are still valid? I believe that is one of the main differences between Pentecostal Christians and other Reformed Christians. Oh and I mean Pentecostals who believe in the Trinity.


37 posted on 12/19/2014 9:06:04 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

“What about whether “signs” are still valid?”

A valid point. Some churches go to either extreme, either requiring signs or refusing to acknowledge any. It is certainly an area that divides churches.

FWIW, my sister is a Trinity-believing pentacostal and I am not, but we’ve both worshiped without a problem in each other’s churches. But you are still fully correct to add that to the list I gave.

There are probably others, but I doubt a very good list would run beyond single digits. American and Southern Baptists, for example, split in the 1800s over the issue of missionaries owning slaves. I’m a Southern Baptist since I’m a member of an SBC congregation, but I was baptized by an American Baptist. I’ve known baptists who were baptized by Lutherans and Methodists. For membership, our congregation requires believer’s baptism, but we do not specify any denomination.

To be honest, belief in the Trinity is one of the best ways of discerning between cult and Christian. We would accept baptism by a Catholic priest, provided it was done as recognition of conversion and not an an infant. We would not accept it from the LDS, or a pentacostal church that rejected the Trinity.


44 posted on 12/19/2014 9:26:39 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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