Comments on: A Test of Essentials and Non-Essentials

By: Trying to know what is true « Perennial Student

Trying to know what is true « Perennial Student — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:52:06 +0000

[...] But there’s a distinct lack of agreement on what is essential and what is not. (A previous post at Parchment and Pen, several months ago, explored what doctrines should be considered essential [...]

By: Kara Kittle

Kara Kittle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:40:51 +0000

Ok to clarify the Pentecostal thing

There is Trinity Pentecostal
There is Oneness Pentecostal
There is Charismatic
There are “Bapti-costs” (ones who hold to Baptist traditional ideas, but practice the gifts…this is what they are calling themselves in North Carolina.)
There are Independent Pentecostals (baptize either way…depending on who is baptizing that day).

By: Kara Kittle

Kara Kittle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:36:56 +0000

I am describing my view as Pentecostal…my particular branch accepts the Trinitarian view as opposed to the branch that accept the Oneness view.

I am a Pentecostal who believes in the Trinity.

By: Lisa Robinson

Lisa Robinson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:05:36 +0000

So you are describing your denomination or the trinity? I don’t see how a oneness Pentacostal belief adheres to the trinity so I’m not clear on the need to make it denomination specific. The trinity describes who God is.

By: Kara Kittle

Kara Kittle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:58:25 +0000

We are Pentecostal and believe in the Trinity…we are not Apostolic Oneness like some other Pentecostals are. I think you would call us Charismatic but I don’t identify with Charismatic.

Some Churches that are Trinity Pentecostal are
Assembly of God
Church of God, Cleveland Assembly
Church of God of Prophecy
Church of God in Christ (COGIC)
International Pentecostal Holiness
Church of God of the Mountain Assembly
Rhema (loosely though)
Word of Faith (again, loosely)
Non-Denominational
Various independent churches
Church of the Living God

We do have colleges and seminaries and have governments set in the churches as any other denomination does.

By: Lisa Robinson

Lisa Robinson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:33:22 +0000

Kara,

What is Trinity Pentacostal?

By: Kara Kittle

Kara Kittle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:29:25 +0000

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Trinity Pentecostal.

The thing about Eternal Security, if you claim it, you better live it.
Q#4…No man knows the day nor the hour so because we were not told when, the important thing is to keep watching and doing what we are supposed to do.

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Karen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:22:48 +0000

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By: Random Thoughts - 10/17/2008 | Kubecki.com

Random Thoughts - 10/17/2008 | Kubecki.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:36:30 +0000

[...] Patton posts an intriguing test on the theological importance of various doctrines… At some point I may blog further on [...]

By: David Di Giacomo

David Di Giacomo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:13:36 +0000

1. Belief in the full deity of Christ: 1
2. Belief in sola fide (belief that salvation is by faith alone, without the addition of any works): 6
3. Belief in the existence of God: 1
4. Belief in the pre-tribulational rapture of the Church: 5
5. Belief that the witch of Endor saw the Spirit of Samuel, not a demonic representation (1 Sam. 28:15 ): 4
6. Belief in inerrancy (that the Bible does not have any errors in doctrine, history, or science) : 4
7. Belief that believers, upon death, go to directly into the presence of Christ, not into a state of spiritual unconsciousness until the resurrection (i.e. you deny soul-sleep): 5
8. Belief that Christ is fully God and fully Man: 1
9. Belief that the book of 2 Peter should be part of the New Testament canon: 3
10. Belief that the Gospel of John should be part of the New Testament canon: 3
11. Belief that the doctrine of purgatory is false: 4
12. Belief in the doctrine of the Trinity (i.e. there is one God who eternally exist in three distinct persons, all of which are fully God, all of which are equal): 2
13. Belief in the inspiration of Scripture: 2
14. Beliefs about the age of the earth: 5
15. Belief that Adam and Eve were real people, not simply symbolic of mankind: 2
16. Belief in the eternal security of the believer/perseverance of the saints (i.e. that a true believer can never lose their salvation): 6
17. Belief that Jesus will come again: 1
18. Belief that Jesus rose bodily from the grave: 1
19. Belief in imputed sin (i.e. that we are held guilty by God for the sin of Adam): 6
20. Belief in personal sin (i.e. that all people have sinned): 1
21. Belief in the penal substitutionary view of the atonement (i.e. that Christ death on the cross was a substitute penalty required by God for payment for your sins): 6
22. Belief in monotheism (i.e. there is only one God): 1
23. Belief in sola Scriptura (i.e. that the Scripture is our ultimate and and only infallible authority and that no council or pope is infallible): 6
24. Belief that homosexuality is a sin: 2
25. Belief that abortion is a sin: 2