Worldview Analysis of Pentecostal Religion

Christ for the remission of sins , and that they would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2 :37-8 . Pentecostals also typically believe , like most other evangelicals , that the Bible has definitive authority in matters of faith . Pentecostals believe in water baptism as an outward sign of conversion and that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a distinct , spiritual experience where all who believe in Jesus should receive . Most classical Pentecostals believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is always accompanied initially by the outward evidence of speaking in

tongues . This is another major difference between Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians , who believe that a Christian baptized in the Holy Spirit may exhibit certain supernatural signs including speaking in tongues "being slain in the spirit (where people fall to the ground as if asleep or in convulsions , prophecy (i .e , a vision or a word of God , spoken or felt in the spirit , miraculous healings , miraculous signs , etc . The majority of Pentecostal denominations hold to a Trinitarian theology in accordance with mainstream Protestantism . Some Pentecostal churches , however , hold to Oneness theology , which decries the traditional doctrine of the Trinity as biblically inaccurate and likely stemming from pagan influences Oneness doctrine holds that God is absolutely and indivisibly one and that Jesus was the one God manifested in the flesh . The division of Father , Son , and Holy Spirit are seen as some of God 's manifestations rather than persons furthermore they are seen as titles to Jesus Therefore , Oneness Pentecostals baptize believers "in Jesus ' name rather than what they refer to as the titles "in the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Spirit " Most Pentecostal churches hold that preaching the Gospel to unbelievers as extremely important "The Great Commission " to spread the "Good...