Pentecostals are defined more by what they do than by what they believe

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Pentecostals are defined more by what they do than by what they believe (of course their practices spring from their beliefs). Pentecostals believe in exorcism, speaking in tongues, faith healing, and a few (about 2,500) in snake handling, and in general, they seek supernatural experiences.

Pentecostalism, from day one, has not shied away from welcoming women preachers and leaders in churches and denominations. The Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.)

Who Are The Pentecostals?

Some of the best known Pentecostal Denominations are:

Church of God in Christ
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Church of God (Tenn.)
Church of God of Prophecy
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Fire-Baptized Holiness Church
Pentecostal Free-Will Baptist Church
The Assemblies of God
The United Pentecostal Church

Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) I believe this is the church that still worshio snake.
My question is are the pentesostal a cult and why do they make woman remove their wedding ring when coming to church
 
Bill_Pick said:
why do they make woman remove their wedding ring when coming to church
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I’ve never been Pentecostal, but I have been Church of the Nazarene, which is another ‘Holiness’ denomination. Their practice is not very similar, but some of the doctrine is. My great-grandmother did not have a wedding ring, because jewelry of any kind was considered proud and ‘worldly’. Perhaps this is why wedding rings wouldn’t be worn in church?

–This isn’t true of the Church of the Nazarene today, btw.
 
There are four basic lines that divide Pentecostals:
The most important is Trinitarian/Nontrinitarian.
There are also Denominational/Nondenominational types of churches in the movement, Prosperity/Moderate/Austerity and Exclusive/Inclusive types. When I say Exclusive, I mean the ones who think only members of their denominations or even individual congregations are really Christians. That is rare but it does exist out there. Most are Inclusive, meaning they assume members of other similar denominations and possibly even non-Pentecostals are really Christians. In fact a majority probably consider Catholics their brothers and sisters in Christ.
Denominational and Nondenominational churches are fluid – I was in a Nondenominational church that joined a denomination while I was there.
The one we joined, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founded in 1919 by Aimee Semple MacPherson in LA, came from Mrs. MacPherson’s desire to gather Pentecostals on a middle ground between the prosperity and austerity extremes.
Because Pentecostals are open to almost any Pentecostal person’s claiming to be a prophet, with varying ways of testing prophecy and claims of any kind of authority, the movement is very vulnerable to cultishness. But I am very sure most Pentecostal churches are not cults at all.
That’s the first I ever heard of a rule against wedding rings in church. There are some who don’t wear any jewelry, I don’t know whether that includes wedding rings or not, but the reason for no jewelry is that the Bible says a woman’s adornment should come from her good deeds and not from finery of any kind, and some take that very literally. That’s a small minority within Pentecostalism.
I know of none who worship snakes. Snake-handling, like poison-drinking, is an extreme example of testing one’s faith. Because Our Lord said someone with faith could pick up snakes and not be harmed, and eat every harmful thing and not be harmed (something like that), there are Pentecostals who demonstrate their faith by trying these things. Most disapprove though. There’s a lot of variety.
 
Eucharisted said:
Sounds like modern Judaism.
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“Modern” Orthodox Judaism would be recognized, immediately, by Joseph and Mary.
Isn’t that nice? 🙂

Orthodox Judaism puts the emphasis on doing - not on theological theories.
Fulfilling the mitzvot, and therefore doing God’s will.

‘This world’ emphasis - in Judaism - keeps people from maundering on about
whether they are ‘saved.’ [And that occassionally makes for a refreshing change.]

…No tapping out the meaning of justification and* righteousness*
------[who has it…or who *is it?]
---->is righteousness imputed, or does God wreak a metaphysical change in man’s
very being?
----->No discussion of snake-handling [pro or con] http://bestsmileys.com/nono/9.gif *

All in all, I do think that Orthodox Judaism far better reflects the nature of God
and the nature of man.

reen12*
 
reen12 said:
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All in all, I do think that Orthodox Judaism far better reflects the nature of God
and the nature of man.
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I believe that the Rabbis have all of the right answers, but all of the answers are perhaps not all in one Rabbi…
 
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