[Esaias]

So, apparently the "Light Doctrine" is closely connected to "Bride and Friend of the Bridegroom" doctrine. Seems like the latter is a logical extension of the former. I guess one could hold to Light Doctrine and not Bride vs Friend doctrine, but it seems that the Bride - Friend doctrine requires some kind of Light Doctrine?

What's interesting to me is how the Light Doctrine seems to have evolved from an original concept that made sense into whatever it is these days.

The "Evening Light" concept among many Pentecostals at the beginning of the 20th century, especially Oneness Pentecostals, was that everyone is required to walk in the "Light" that God had made available, and that God had now made available the current Light (Holy Ghost baptism, Jesus' Name baptism, Oneness, etc) and so everyone was required to get in line with it. Back in the day, say the 1800s, this Light hadn't been revealed, so the people back then had to walk in the Light they had. But now, everybody is expected to get right with all the Light that was being revealed. Somehow, that morphed into "some folks are still stuck in last century's Light but that's okay they are walking in all they know at the moment"?