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Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne
Sam, I have some questions for you, as I don't understand the PCI view, having never heard of it before these forums existed to me.
I understand that the PCI view says that one is 'saved' at repentance, but should be baptised and receive the Holy Ghost. Is this true?
I will follow up with the others after your answer.
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What we call the PCI or one-stepper view on this forum is the belief that salvation/regeneration/justification happens when a person repents or makes a personal commitment to Jesus Christ. One steppers believe that justification is a legal term meaning that a person is declared righteous (just as if I'd never sinned). Salvation means that a person is no longer lost and bound for Hell. Regeneration means being born again or born of the Spirit.
Salvation should be followed up by water baptism. Baptism is a public declaration that the old me is dead so I'm burying him in a watery grave. Baptism is also a symbolic cleansing from sin. Baptism is also a public declaration that I believe Jesus died for me, was buried, and rose again from the dead.
The HGB (Holy Ghost Baptism), or being filled with the Spirit, or the Spirit falling upon or coming upon a person is also called the promise of the Father. A one-stepper believes that the disciples and apostles of Jesus were saved before He sent them out preaching and healing the sick during His earthly ministry and therefore were saved/born again before the Holy Ghost Baptism experience at Pentecost in Acts chapter 2. The HGB is an empowering experience for someone who is already a child of God. In other words, Peter was saved because he believed Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God. Later he was filled with the Spirit in
Acts 2:4, filled again in
Acts 4:8, and filled again in
Acts 4:31.
Some of the leaders (including the General Supt.) of the UPC when it was formed in 1945 were one-steppers. It is a valid view among Oneness Pentecostal teachers, preachers, and saints.
There is another thread going right now titled "Can someone please tell me...." which also addresses this same PCI one stepper subject.
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