Is There A Difference?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by seekerman

And that they were mostly saved in the last 100 years or so....since oneness Pentecostalism, with it's only true plan of salvation, existed. I mean, there's a total lack of evidence for the visible, viable and powerful church of the Living God for several hundred years, until R.E. McAlister preached the true way to salvation in 1913. There were no 'people of the name' until after 1913...or if they were they were insignificant.

Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

All Jesus name oneness Pentecostals?

McAlister did not preach baptism in Jesus' name as salvation.
Those folks were already saved, and not only saved but also they had been baptized in the Spirit. Water baptism in Jesus' name was not for salvation --it was a step toward being more like the first century church.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Sam

McAlister did not preach baptism in Jesus' name as salvation.
Those folks were already saved, and not only saved but also they had been baptized in the Spirit. Water baptism in Jesus' name was not for salvation --it was a step toward being more like the first century church.

What do you think?
The folks were saved and then around 1900-1906 they got baptized in the Spirit and thought, "Oh my, I guess I wasn't saved before but I am now that I've been baptized in the Spirit." Then in 1910-1914 they got baptized in water in Jesus' name and thought, "Oh my, I thought I was saved before but I really wasn't until I was baptized in the Spirit --then I thought I was saved because I got baptized in the Spirit --but I guess I really wasn't saved until now because nowI got baptized in Jesus' name." Was salvation like the carrot before the donkey that kept getting moved out as they moved ahead?

[Godsdrummer]

Originally Posted by Sam

What do you think?
The folks were saved and then around 1900-1906 they got baptized in the Spirit and thought, "Oh my, I guess I wasn't saved before but I am now that I've been baptized in the Spirit." Then in 1910-1914 they got baptized in water in Jesus' name and thought, "Oh my, I thought I was saved before but I really wasn't until I was baptized in the Spirit --then I thought I was saved because I got baptized in the Spirit --but I guess I really wasn't saved until now because nowI got baptized in Jesus' name." Was salvation like the carrot before the donkey that kept getting moved out as they moved ahead?

LOL

My sentiments exactaly Sam, as I understand it there was a group of "saved Christians" that wanted a deeper walk with God that prayed and fasted for a move of God when they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost as we experiance it today, and call it pentecostalism. This is not to preclude we get inclings of many others down through time that experianced the same thing. As I understand it the Methodist were said to be move mightily by the spirit and even spoke with tongues, and were known to fall out in services.