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Originally Posted by Old Paths
All I can say say is...hog wash!
I don't know where you have been and who you have been in contact with, but we evidently haven't ran in the same circles.
I have travelled extensively within the UPCI for over 25 years and never one time have I ever heard one UPCI preacher say anything other than John 3:5 (the New Birth) is accquired by obeying Acts 2:38.
Not one......
BTW
This is the official UPCI statement on water baptism, is this wrong?
The saving gospel is the good news that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose again. We obey the gospel (II Thessalonians 1:8; I Peter 4:17) by repentance (death to sin), water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ (burial), and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit (resurrection). (See I Corinthians 15:1-4; Acts 2:4, 37-39; Romans 6:3-4.)
http://www.upci.org/about-us/beliefs |
The opinion that "born of water" means water baptism is a later development among Apostolic/Pentecostals. Early Apostolic/Pentecostals believed they were saved prior to and separate from the 2 baptisms (water and Spirit).
The 3 step salvation theory has been pushed and promoted by a vocal and militant minority of Apostolic Pentecostals until now they've filled the UPC with that theory and are trying to get people to believe that it has always been the teaching of the UPC. When the UPC was formed in 1945 some believed in a three-step plan of salvation and some believed in a one-step plan of salvation. The first issue of the Pentecostal Herald said that articles from both viewpoints would be accepted.
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