[Mark17]

Some Pentecostals/Charismatics have asserted that unless one speaks in tongues, he/she ISN'T baptized by the Holy Spirit. Do you believe that, too?

I have had 2 or 3 tell me, one cannot even be saved, unless one speaks in tongues. I don’t know how widespread that feeling is, however. I don’t buy it.

[boatbums]

I’ve heard it, too. Sounds like they were not Bereans.

[Elsie]

Whereas most Pentecostals and evangelicals believe that only faith in Jesus Christ is the essential element for salvation,

Oneness Pentecostalism defines salvation as repentance, full-submersion water baptism (in the name of Jesus Christ) and baptism in the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.^[3]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneness_Pentecostalism

 

 

They're a bit shifty on the Trinity as well.

[Elsie]

I have had 2 or 3 tell me, one cannot even be saved, unless one speaks in tongues.

Golly!

I didn't know that MUTES were forever doomed to the PIT!

[Elsie]

I have had 2 or 3 tell me, one cannot even be saved, unless one speaks in tongues.

Nothing new under the sun:

Acts 15:1-5

 ¹ Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." ² This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. ³ The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad. ⁴ When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.

 ⁵ Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses."