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| | Pentecostalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The largest Pentecostal denominations in the United States are the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ, Church of God (Cleveland) and the United Pentecostal Church. | | | Pentecostalism is sometimes referred to as the "third force of Christianity." The largest Christian church in the world is the Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea, a Pentecostal church. | | | Pentecostals believe that you must be saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Saviour for the forgiveness of sins and to be made acceptable to God. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostal
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| | Oneness Pentecostal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Oneness Pentecostals do not deny the existence or divinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; they just deny that there are a multiplicity of persons, members, individuals, minds or consciences within the one God. | | | Oneness theology states that there is only one God, who was manifested in the flesh, and that He became fully known to humanity in the person of Jesus Christ. | | | Oneness Pentecostals baptize "in the name of Jesus Christ", "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" or "in the name of Jesus." These baptismal differences separate a number of Oneness Pentecostals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneness_Pentecostal
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| | The Watchman Expositor: Oneness Pentecostalism Profile |
| | Oneness Pentecostals are correct in pointing out that the God of the Bible is monotheistic. | | | Groups: United Pentecostal Church International, Apostolic World Christian Federation, Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. | | | The Oneness Pentecostal teaching that God "manifested" Himself through the offices of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit comes directly from Sabellius, who even used the term "manifesting" to define his doctrine. |
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http://www.watchman.org/profile/onenesspro.htm
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: United Pentecostal Church International |
| | ONENESS "doctrine that God is absolutely one in numerical value, that Jesus is the One God, and that God is not of plurality of persons," meaning God is not the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in three separate forms. | | | The Oneness of God is opposite to the belief of the Trinity, which is God acting separately as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. | | | The Oneness doctrine states that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are all present in the manifestation of each other because of this oneness nature of God. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/UnitPent.html
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| | The Gospel According to Oneness Pentecostalism |
| | Oneness Pentecostals see themselves as the only ones who teach the "full truth of God." Other Christians, who may have been truly transformed by the Spirit of God, and love and serve the God of the Bible, are seen as "on the way" to the full truth, but not quite there. | | | The modern Oneness movement began at a Pentecostal camp meeting in April 1913 with one man's "revelation" that baptism "in the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 2:38) was the correct fulfillment of Jesus' command to baptize "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19). | | | Oneness Pentecostals also cannot believe that any non-Oneness Christian is really saved, because they haven't been baptized "correctly." In Oneness thinking, to be baptized "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" is the equivalent of not being baptized at all. |
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http://www.gospeloutreach.net/opgospel.html
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| | "What is Oneness Pentecostal Theology?" |
| | Oneness Pentecostal theology affirms that there exists only one God in all the universe. | | | Oneness churches also teach that speaking in tongues is a necessary manifestation of the Holy Spirit. | | | Oneness theology denies the Trinity and teaches that God is a single person who was "manifested as Father in creation and as the Father of the Son, in the Son for our redemption, and as the Holy Spirit in our regeneration." |
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http://www.carm.org/oneness/whatisoneness.htm
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| | Focus On The Faulty: Articles |
| | Oneness Pentecostals are known mostly for their denial of the doctrine of the Trinity. | | | On the Oneness view, anyone baptized "in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" is, in their view, yet unsaved. | | | In the teaching of the United Pentecostal Church and most other Oneness groups, a believer is expected, as a matter of salvation, to adhere to the norms of the community ("the standards"). |
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http://www.xmark.com/focus/Pages/oneness.html
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| | Apostolic Church Apostasy: UPC Oneness, United Pentecostal Church cult of Jesus Only |
| | Pentecostal churches of evangelical faith, which profess the Holy Trinity, have all denounced these peculiar doctrines of the United Pentecostal church as false. | | | This apostate doctrine of a oneness of God, as if He were only but one person, was actually present during the days of the early church. | | | The so-called Apostolic churches, also called “United Pentecostal” churches (not to be confused with other Pentecostal churches) together with their independent church break-offs form the cult known as “Jesus Only”. |
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http://www.dokimos.org/apostolic
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| | Out of Oneness Pentecostal Error |
| | Oneness adherents maintain that this proves Jesus and the Father are one person. | | | I was raised in the Assemblies of God. | | | After several vigorous attempts to respond to their Oneness claims and the many scriptures on water baptism, I became persuaded of their theology, and even went as far as to doubt my salvation. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/robbino/david.htm
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| | Was the early church 'Oneness' Pentecostal? |
| | Though the 'Oneness' Pentecostals claim to believe that Jesus Christ is God, in their romps through church history, they gladly own as brethren anti-trinitarians whose rejection of the Trinity is premised on denial of Christ's Deity. | | | Both the Unitarians and the 'Oneness' Pentecostals believe that a mere man called 'the Son' was born to the virgin Mary in the days of King Herod, no 'Son' previously having existed. | | | Yet 'Oneness' Pentecostals also claim to believe that Jesus Christ is God, the denial of which sent these brave men and women to their graves. |
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http://thriceholy.net/earlychurch.html
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| | "Jesus' resurrection and Ascension is a problem for Oneness Pentecostal theology." |
| | Oneness denies that since God, according to its theology, is now supposed to be in the form of the Holy Spirit. | | | Oneness Pentecostal theology states that Jesus had two natures while he was walking the earth. | | | One of the problems with oneness theology is in dealing with the resurrection of Jesus. |
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http://www.carm.net/oneness/Jesusresurrection.htm
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| | Answering Gregory Boyd’s "Sharing Your Faith with a Oneness Pentecostal" |
| | Oneness believers have splendid arguments for the _deity_ of Christ, and this they believe also proves that Jesus is the Father. | | | Like most Oneness Pentecostals, I was firmly convinced that Trinitarians worshipped three separate gods and that they didn't "really" believe that Jesus Christ was Himself the Lord God Almighty. | | | Oneness Pentecostals should not be indoctrinated that Trinitarians "believe" in three gods, but rather that they make extra-scriptural expressions, and abide by creeds and post-apostolic formulations which emphasize an essentially plural deity. |
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http://www.altupc.com/articles/boyd.htm
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| | Road to the Merger |
| | The Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance ministers voted to merge with The Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, but the terms of the proposed merger was not accepted by the ministers in The Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. | | | However, a merger between The Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ and The Pentecostal Assemblies of the World was consummated in November 1931. | | | When The Assemblies of God adopted the doctrine of the trinity at its Fourth General Council in October 1916, the Oneness Pentecostals were forced to withdraw from the organization. |
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http://www.upci.org/historical/pioneers/articles/merger/rdtmrgr.htm
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| | Jesus Only or Oneness, Pentecostal Movement |
| | Furthermore, Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4), and that He is no phantom, "mode," or "manifestation" of Jesus Christ, as the "Jesus Only" or "Oneness" Pentecostal movement maintains. | | | Therefore, it is apparent that we are instructed to use the Triune formula in baptism by the authority of Jesus Christ's pronouncement in Matthew 28:18-19. | | | McAlister, a Canadian evangelist, exhorted during a baptismal service that the apostles baptized not in the Triune formula (i.e., in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost), but in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.biblefacts.org/cult/oneness.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Oneness of God (Series in Pentecostal Theology, Vol 1): Books: David K. Bernard |
| | When Oneness ministers left the Assembly of God in 1914, they did not believe that the brothers and sisters they left behind were lost because they believed in the Trinity and were not baptized in "Jesus" Name, that is, by having the Name of Jesus spoken over them at baptism. | | | In regard to the Holy Spirit, this group of Oneness believers maintains that the Holy Spirit is the Father Himself, and not a distinct "person" from that of the Father or the Son. | | | The reason for this is that most Oneness modalist preachers do not attend Bible college having reached the position of Pastor or preacher by being faithful to a local Pastor and Church. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0912315121?v=glance
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| | PFRS Oneness Pentecostal & Baptism Issues |
| | While it is true that "Oneness" was taught in the early Church, it was considered heresy by the orthodox. | | | Yet, it is clear that Polycarp was not "Oneness." Furthermore, as we shall see later, it was within the church of Smyrna that the Oneness heresy first sprung up. | | | Had the Apostles taught Oneness, Jesus certainly would NOT have commended the church in Smyrna, since its current Pastor, Polycarp, most certainly did not hold such a view, and his church, only a few decades later, excommunicated Noetus who first introduced this teaching into that church. |
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http://www.pfrs.org/oneness/op04.html
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| | CHRISTIANITY: THE PENTECOSTAL FAMILY |
| | The United Pentecostal Church and the Pentecostal Assemblies of The World are the main Oneness Pentecostal denominations. | | | Pentecostalism is a highly fragmented family within Christianity; one source lists 177 separate denominations. | | | Other Pentecostals, particularly those with a Baptist background, believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit can happen to any believer in Jesus, whether or not they have first been sanctified. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_pent.htm
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| | "What does Oneness Pentecostal teach?" |
| | The two main groups that hold to Oneness theology are the United Pentecostal Church International (the largest) and the United Apostolic church. | | | Many Oneness people deny that women can be pastors, but the UPCI (United Pentecostal Church International) does. | | | But it is not a required practice according to the Bible. |
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http://www.carm.org/oneness/onenessteach.htm
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| | The Oneness of God |
| | It asserts the oneness of God and the absolute deity of Jesus Christ. | | | The treatment of the oneness of God in this book is designed to be simple; but the truths are profound, scholarly, priceless, and essential to the people of God and a lost world. | | | Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 present the positive doctrine of Christian monotheism as taught by the Bible, the doctrine commonly known today as Oneness. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pentecostal/One-Top.htm
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| | Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - About T.D. Jakes |
| | However, the Bible nowhere teaches that the "oneness" of God is to be understood as only one Person. | | | Christianity affirms one God in three co-existing persons as Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Oneness theology affirms one God in one person, Jesus Christ, in three modes or manifestations. | | | In fact, the statement appears to be worded to appeal to both Oneness believers and Trinitarians, even though it is impossible to hold both the Oneness and the Trinitarian position - or to compromise on the doctrine of the Trinity. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/j11.html
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| | 'Jesus Only' Isn't Enough - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | For most orthodox Christians, the Oneness movement occupies a kind of cloudy no man's land between orthodox Christianity and the various groups that, because of their beliefs and practices, are decidedly not orthodox (e.g., Mormons, Christian Scientists). | | | The earliest Oneness Pentecostals felt so strongly about the baptismal formula that many of them chose to be rebaptized in the name of Jesus only, which led to splits in congregations and denominations. | | | Like all Pentecostals, Oneness Pentecostals place great emphasis on the role of the Spirit in the Christian life. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/004/22.60.html
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| | Apostolic Pentecostal Oneness |
| | But Peter spoke on the Day of Pentecost under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. | | | He went to Ephesus many years after the Day of Pentecost and found some disciples of John the Baptist there. | | | (Most translations actually say, "In the name of Jesus Christ.") If Peter was wrong on the Day of Pentecost, he surely had ample time to be corrected before he went to the house of Cornelius. |
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http://www.communities.ninemsn.com/ApostolicPentecostalOneness/yourwebpage.msnw
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| | Oneness Pentecostal articles |
| | This list of articles is on the Oneness Pentecostal and Apostolic faith teachings. | | | - Oneness teaches God is one person only, who was manifested in the flesh. | | | Can God become the Son or the Spirit and then change back to the Father, is he only one person at a time? |
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http://www.letusreason.org/Onendir.htm
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| | Jesus Name Apostolic Holiness Church Oneness Pentecostal Christianity |
| | We are not affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church also known as UPC or UPCI though we acknowledge that there are many brethren who attend UPCI Churches and their assembly. | | | We are Oneness Christian teaching the Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal Jesus Name Holiness message from the Bible. | | | We are Apostolic Oneness Pentecostal Christians teaching Pentecostal Christianity, the Lord Jesus Christ as God our Saviour, Jehovah Saviour.. |
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http://www.prerapture.org
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| | Oneness Versus Trinity |
| | Neither the word 'trinity' nor the word 'oneness' is found in the Bible. | | | Introduction to the Oneness of God in the Name of Jesus Christ by Tom Raddatz | | | Is the United Pentecostal Church Teaching the True Godhead Doctrine? |
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http://www.spiritualabuse.org/issues/onenessvtrinity.html
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| | PFRS Oneness Pentecostal & Baptism Issues |
| | Oneness Pentecostals claim that the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is "Jesus." | | | Of course, Oneness Pentecostals presuppose that "Father," "Son," and "Holy Spirit" are all the same person. | | | Some oneness Pentecostals claim an exception to Sharp's rule by claiming that the word "name" is actually a synonym for "God." However, nowhere in Scripture is "name" used as a synonym for God. |
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http://www.pfrs.org/oneness/op02.html
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "The largest Pentecostal organization is the Assemblies of God, with over 8,000 churches and 500,000 members in 70 countries. | | | The Assemblies closely resembles the United Pentecostal Church in doctrine... | | | "Assemblies of God, General Council: The largest of the pentecostal sects, having headquarters in Springfield, Mo. The group has about 2,600 churches and 148,000 members. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_40.html
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| | Jesus Name Apostolic Holiness Church PreRapture Ministries Pentecostal Christian Rapture |
| | An Apostolic Pentecostal Christian Ministry of the Jesus Name Apostolic Holiness Church Inc. Preaching the Holiness Apostolic Christian Oneness Pentecostal Message of Jesus Christ is God, Monotheism, Christian rebirth Oneness Christianity, Christian Salvation Apostolic doctrine until the Pre Tribulation Rapture of the Church. | | | It is Oneness religion the only true Christianity. | | | Jesus Name Apostolic Holiness Church PreRapture Ministries Pentecostal Christian Rapture |
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| | Footnotes |
| | In the spring of 1983 the author sent a survey to most of these groups, but only received responses from the UPCI and from the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God, which reported 198 churches. | | | For a description of these and several smaller Oneness Pentecostal groups, see J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of American Religions (Wilmington, N.C.: McGrath Publishing Co., 1978), pp. | | | Bell's article "Who is Jesus Christ?" is reproduced in Oliver Fauss, Buy the Truth and Sell It Not (St. Louis: Pentecostal Publ. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pentecostal/New-Foot.htm
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| | Oneness |
| | Sharing Your Faith with a Oneness Pentecostal: Part 1, by Gregory A. Boyd - Christian Research Institute | | | Sharing Your Faith with a Oneness Pentecostal: Part 2, by Gregory A. Boyd - Christian Research Institute | | | Official Web Site of the United Pentecostal Church International |
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http://ronrhodes.org/oneness.htm
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| | Links |
| | Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith Assoc., Inc. | | | For the views of specific movements visit their official sites. | | | We do not pretend to represent the official position of any particular Oneness organization. |
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http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/links.htm
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| | Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Occult, Oneness Pentecostalism, Orthodoxy, Etc. |
| | One Man's Exodus from the United Pentecostal Church | | | Deals with the subject of spiritual abuse in general, and in relation to the United Pentecostal Church/Oneness theology. | | | Huge site promoting tolerance toward "all but destructive religions." The site is operated by "a group of 4 volunteers: two Unitarian Universalists, one Wiccan and one liberal but unaffiliated Christian." All are said to be "motivated by a concern about threats to religious freedom, and about religious hatred, misinformation, and discrimination." |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/o00.html
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| | Institute for Biblical Studies - (OnenessPentecostal.com) |
| | How Can God's Fullness "Fit" in Such a Tiny Place as Christ? | | | Oneness vs. Trinity--A Reason for the Different Theologies | | | Evangelical or Pentecostal Soteriology?: The Biblical Pattern of Conversion |
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http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies
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| | HolySecrets.com Holy Secrets |
| | Absolutely the BEST way to meet other Christian singles! | | | Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal Christian web site with sermons and tracts. | | | Find Pentecostal at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! |
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http://www.holysecrets.com/1056-pentecostal.htm
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