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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
What happened Sam to the old-time spirit of toleration??? Are the new PAJCers counterfeits?
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When the merger happened in 1945 there were some who did not go along with it. There is still an organization called the PAJC. I am subscribed to their magazine. It is not a large organization. I first heard of it in 1956/1957 when I was going to school in St. Paul, MN. A young lady from Cleveland, OH went to a church which was part of that group. The church met in the basement of her home.
That was the idea of the word "full" in the fundamental doctrine statement. Some viewed the three steps of
Acts 2:38 as all being necessary to being saved or born again. Anything less than all three steps was not real or full salvation. Others believed that "full" salvation applies to the whole lifetime of Christian experience --that we are not completely or fully saved until our death or the rapture. These folks believed that one was saved/justified/regenerated at faith and repentance and that after that conversion experience, they should be water baptized and Spirit baptized as part of their walk with God and growth in their Christian experience.
In 1973, the fundamental doctrine was modified to add the words, "for the remission of sins." This had been previously proposed in 1972 and Gene Zinni, superintendent of the Central New England District is quoted as having said, "Next we'll be teaching people need the Holy Ghost baptism to be saved." John Paterson is said to have been instrumental in thwarting the resolution. Paterson mailed a letter to every member of the General Board in August 1973 attempting to point out the theological problems associated with the proposed amendment. He warned that the issue would return and it did. Those words were added in 1973. Bro. W.M. Greer stated that "had those words been insisted upon (in 1945) there would have been no merger.
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