Having studied the history of the Apostolic movement for over 25 years, and having family roots stretching back to its inception, I've enjoyed discussing and debating the doctrinal diversity of the movement since hooking up my first primitive dial-up modem in 1995. :-)
However, I've started to tire of the often-bombastic posts I frequently observe during occasional visits to this forum -- trumpeting the differing streams of belief of the PAJC and the PCI as if revealing some previously-forbidden knowledge, bound in secrecy until the publication of Fudge's Christianity Without the Cross.
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Originally Posted by SDG
Facts show that PCI men like Goss and Small even started fellowships w/ Trinitarians in an effort to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as evident w/ the early formation of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.
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Really? What "facts" show that Frank Small ever started a fellowship with Trinitarians?
The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada was initially established as a
Oneness organization. When the PAOC subsequently adopted a Trinitarian statement of faith, Small considered it "unwarranted compromise" and formed the Apostolic Church of Pentecost, with Oneness, baptism in Jesus' name, and the grace of God as its central tenets.
Years later, the Evangelical Churches of Pentecost, which practised baptism in Jesus' name but held to a "triunity" view of the Godhead, merged with the ACOP. Small himself, however, opposed this amalgamation.
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