Your comments are very good Sam.
Well, concerning TFT -- It has been more than 6 years since I have spoken to him, but I did work for him while I was in college. On the weekends, I would drive him to various preaching engagements in TX, LA, AR, and MS.
To make a long story short, one day we were listening to a preaching -- he use to listen to sermons from all types of different preachers and one man used Martin Luther as example. It was a vivid example and I was greatly impressed. I asked TFT, Bro. Tenney I love the
Acts 2:38 message and thank God that I have experienced it. However, what of a man like Martin Luther? He replied with great severity and said -- "We leave him in the hands of God. He came out of much" He then went on to describe how old timers of the
Acts 2:38 message believed in the Light doctrine. He did this all in the third person. With his words he never denied the essentiality that he felt for
Acts 2:38, but he expressed the great mercy of God towards those who do not know it and yet have faith in Jesus Christ.