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To: daniel1212; stfassisi
And which agreement was once of the core teachings that set the evangelical movement apart from liberals, and which is what i defend.

oh and on checking some numbers, note that one can't say that Oneness Pentecostals are a small numbe r-- they are 10% of all pentecostals

And they emphatically do not believe in the Trinity

This is a major, fundamental dogmatic difference between orthodoxy and the Oneness P's -- now if an evangelical holds to a Trinitarian view, then the Oneness Pentecostal doctrine differs from theirs at a very fundamental level

495 posted on 12/06/2012 7:17:08 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

That mischaracterizes what i said, which was that the OP churches and the SDA together make up less than 2% of all Christians. Oneness Pentecostals rep. 1.1% of all Christians, and 24 million out of 279 million pentecostal Christians and 305 million charismatic Christians, while Pentecostals overall (apart from Char. Christians) rep. 12.8% of all Christians. Pentecostal and charismatic Christians together make up about 27% of all Christians. (http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-exec.aspx; http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-movements-and-denominations.aspx)

Charismatics can include Catholics, and in which tongues are often prominent, while a 10-country survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in 2006 found that 49 percent of Pentecostals in the United States, 50 percent in Brazil, 41 percent in South Africa, and 54 percent in India said they “never” speak or pray in tongues. (http://pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Orphan_Migrated_Content/pentecostals-08.pdf)

This is relevant as OPs (wrongly ) require glossolalia for salvation.


504 posted on 12/06/2012 4:31:39 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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