The Pentecostals are too strict!

[stan1953]

Be wary. The UPC doesn't believe in the trinity, iirc. That's a deal-breaker belief.

Not according to their SoF on their website. Both the UPCI and the IPHC seem to have the same type of SoF about God, which appears to support a triune Godhead but does not use the word Trinity. If any church teaches "Oneness", it is something to be avoided.


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[Albion]

Not according to their SoF on their website. Both the UPCI and the IPHC seem to have the same type of SoF about God, which appears to support a triune Godhead but does not use the word Trinity.

There's a "threeway-ness" involved in their description of God's doings, but it's not the conventional belief in the Trinity.

 

[stan1953]

There's a "threeway-ness" involved in their description of God's doings, but it's not the conventional belief in the Trinity.

This kind of careful wording always sets off the alarms in my spirit.

If you read the SoFs of the PAOC or AOG, it clearly states "Trinity".

 

[seashale76]

This kind of careful wording always sets off the alarms in my spirit.

If you read the SoFs of the PAOC or AOG, it clearly states "Trinity".

Well- he wasn't saying the AOG didn't believe that anyway. The AOG does believe in the trinity- however- UPC doesn't. In fact, the issue over the trinity and holiness standards is one of the reasons we have some of these different pentecostal denominations. They split off from each other due to them. Someone said earlier- some of these groups believe in modalism and NOT the trinity. It's a deal-breaker and it isn't petty or trivial.


ETA: On second reading- I think I completely mis-read your post. Are you agreeing with Albion?

 

[stan1953]

Well- he wasn't saying the AOG didn't believe that anyway. The AOG does believe in the trinity- however- UPC doesn't. In fact, the issue over the trinity and holiness standards is one of the reasons we have some of these different pentecostal denominations. They split off from each other due to them. Someone said earlier- some of these groups believe in modalism and NOT the trinity. It's a deal-breaker and it isn't petty or trivial.
ETA: On second reading- I think I completely mis-read your post. Are you agreeing with Albion?

LOL...yes.

 

[seashale76]

LOL...yes.

Sorry. Well- good then. Carry on.

 

[stan1953]

Sorry. Well- good then. Carry on.

By your leave m'lady.

 

[Albion]

This kind of careful wording always sets off the alarms in my spirit.

If you read the SoFs of the PAOC or AOG, it clearly states "Trinity".

I was referring to your statement about the UPCI, not the AOG. ("Not according to their SoF on their website. Both the UPCI and the IPHC seem to have the same type of SoF about God, which appears to support a triune Godhead but does not use the word Trinity.")

 

[stan1953]

I was referring to your statement about the UPCI, not the AOG. ("Not according to their SoF on their website. Both the UPCI and the IPHC seem to have the same type of SoF about God, which appears to support a triune Godhead but does not use the word Trinity.")

NP... I understood that.

 

[Albion]

NP... I understood that.

I get it now. That's a danger when dropping into a thread now and then.

 

[stan1953]

I get it now. That's a danger when dropping into a thread now and then.

Yep...done it myself many times.