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Originally Posted by pelathais
They're not distorted views... they're just experiences that are different from yours... AND - they are the experiences of the majority of Oneness Pentecostals.
Now, obviously the stuff that was "introduced" in the 1940's came from somewhere. There was (and still is) a lively and vibrant, though by most standards, a small movement that represents the ideals you crave.
It's just a plain fact: your position was never the majority among Oneness Pentecostals. When you cry out for "the olde tyme religion" you are crying for a rather small and marginalized sectarian viewpoint that was never the heritage of the vast number of Oneness Pentecostals.
Numbers alone don't make you wrong, however. I'm certain that you're capable of being wrong either all by yourself or among millions. It's just a fact of history that you've been wrong with a rather small number of people, most of whom have learned not to try and advance their opinion in public forums lest they be proven wrong, again.
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My understanding and belief is that the North American outpouring in the 20th century came through the Methodist holiness movement.
I tend to believe that at one time, most if not all, believed and obeyed the UPC manual out of conviction and because it was their conviction, tended to communicate that conviction to their saints as well.
Has it stayed that way among most if not all? Obviously not. But just as in the early rain after
Acts 2, Paul warning them night and days with tears about those on the outside who would come after he departed not sparing the flock and those on the inside who would rise up and speak perverse (distort, misinterpret, corrupt) things to draw away disciples after them; and those who would depart from the faith, etc. Peter and Jude also speaking of these types of people.
Therefore, there is nothing new under the sun. Just like in the early rain it happened, so now in the latter rain outpouring it is happening.
The apostolic organizations are shaking.
Heb 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.