A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
UPCI’s Historical Committee, and a leading Pentecostal
historian, offered the following explanation of the
Fundamental Doctrine: 141
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There does not appear to have been a doctrinal difference
between the two groups, for most ministers in
the PAJC and PCI held to the necessity of the Acts
2:38 experience. However, a few ministers in each
group—more in the PCI than in the PAJC—held that
a person may be saved at repentance. The merging
agreement included the “Fundamental Doctrine”
statement affirming that salvation includes water baptism
and the gift of the Holy Ghost—something the
overwhelming majority of both the PAJC and PCI
believed. However, to show patience toward ministers
who practiced Acts 2:38 but who held to the view that
salvation—at least in part—occurred at faith and
repentance, the “Fundamental Doctrine” also includes
the second paragraph calling for unity in Spirit until
all came to the same view. There was no tolerance on
the salvation message of Acts 2:38, for this is clearly
stated. It was only tolerance toward those who needed
time to accept the view of salvation as stated in the
first paragraph.
The Fundamental Doctrine of the UPCI states: 142
The basic and fundamental doctrine of this organization
shall be the Bible standard of full salvation,
which is repentance, baptism in water by immersion
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the