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Originally Posted by Scott Pitta
Frank Ewart considered the Arroyo Seco camp meeting revelation as something new. I cannot think of anyone claiming to have already practiced or believed the new birth message.
That referred to the Oneness of God.
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Just to make sure I understand, you're saying that what Ewart said about the revelation at Arroyo Seco had to do with the Oneness of God?
From what I've read so far is seems like the teaching that connected
John 3:5 and
Acts 2:38 and considered the new birth, or initial salvation, as a process and not a point in time originated in the 1910s and 1920s and is unique in the history of the Christianity. I am very interested to know if any other groups may have taught this as well.
Since I attend a UPCI church, I am in particular interested in how two organizations (PAJC and PCI) formed a merger though no unanimity existed regarding how
Acts 2:38 was to be understood, though all practiced it. (Now there is, officially at any rate, unanimity: the PAJC view has prevailed, that is, the doctrine of water and Spirit. It interests me a great deal that it was not always so.)