A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
Baptism of the Holy Spirit who has not a Bible evidence
to show for it. . . .
Speaking with new tongues . . . [is] the only Bible
sign given as the evidence of the Baptism of the Holy
Ghost.
Parham equated “the sealing of the Holy Spirit of
promise (which is evidenced by the speaking tongues)”
with being “baptized by the Holy Ghost into one Body, the
gloriously redeemed Church.” 7 People who believe on
Jesus can be saved in a lesser sense without this experience,
but they will endure the rigors of the Tribulation. If
they receive “the seal of the Holy Ghost,” they will
“escape the power of the Anti-Christ as well as the
plagues and wraths.” But “should you fail in the reception
of a personal Pentecost you will be compelled to either
accept the mark of the Beast or suffer martyrdom.” 8
Moreover, in eternity believers who do not receive the
Spirit will inhabit the new earth rather than the new heavens.
“Jesus [will] take out a people for His name, through
sanctification, being born of the water and the Spirit, they
see the Kingdom of God; Christ having given Himself for
the Church.” The church will receive “eternal spiritual life
and immortality” in the “new heavens.” By contrast,
Christians who are “unsanctified” as well as “many heathens”
will merely receive “everlasting human life” on “the
new earth.” 9
In 1902, Parham published the foregoing message
and teachings in a book entitled A Voice Crying in the
Wilderness. In the same book, Parham also wrote that
years earlier God had impressed upon him the importance
of water baptism. Under the influence of Quaker
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