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[169] [170] Oneness Pentecostals believe that Jesus is the name of God and therefore baptize in the name of Jesus Christ as performed by the apostles , fulfilling the instructions left by Jesus Christ in the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19), they believe that Jesus is the only name given to mankind by which we must be saved .
Oneness Pentecostals insist that their conception of the Godhead is true to early Christianity's allegedly strict monotheism, contrasting their views not only with Trinitarianism, but equally with the theology espoused by the Latter-day Saints (who believe that Christ was a separate god from the Father and the Spirit) and Jehovah's Witnesses ...
The United Pentecostal Church teaches that there is no personal distinction between God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. [19] These two titles "Father" and "Holy Spirit" (as well as others) do not reflect separate "persons" within the Godhead, but rather two different ways in which the one God reveals himself to his creatures.
Despite the fact that Pentecostals tend to share more in common with evangelicals than with either Roman Catholics or non-evangelical wings of the church, [15] the charismatic movement was not initially influential among evangelical churches. C. Peter Wagner traces the spread of the charismatic movement within evangelicalism to around 1985.
Pentecostal Syrian Christians have been dubbed "sheep stealers" by leaders of traditional Saint Thomas Christian denominations, due to their eagerness to gain more St. Thomas Christian converts. [52] Pentecostal Syrian Christians are an endogamous sect; they do not marry into or from other castes or Christian denominations.
Holiness Pentecostalism is the original branch of Pentecostalism, which is characterized by its teaching of three works of grace: [1] the New Birth (first work of grace), [2] entire sanctification (second work of grace), and [3] Spirit baptism evidenced by speaking in tongues (third work of grace).
In early Pentecostal thought, speaking in tongues was considered the third work of grace that followed the new birth (first work of grace) and entire sanctification (second work of grace). [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Holiness Pentecostal denominations, such as the Apostolic Faith Church , continue to teach this. [ 37 ]
Oneness Pentecostals are nontrinitarian Pentecostal Christians who do not accept the pre-existence of Christ as distinguished from God the Father, believing that, prior to the incarnation, only "the timeless Spirit of God (the Father)" [25] existed. Afterwards God "simultaneously dwelt in heaven as a timeless Spirit, and inside of the Son of ...