A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism
saw no one so speaking, and I often wondered, is
there anyone today who actually is baptized with the
Holy Spirit. This 12 th chapter of 1st Corinthians
cleared me up on that, especially when I found Paul
asking of those who had been baptized with the Holy
Spirit: “Do all speak with tongues?”
When the Pentecostal movement came, Torrey rejected
it out of hand. He asserted, “God withdrew the gift of
tongues from the church back in the beginning of the
Church Age, and there is no good reason to say that He
ever restored it.” He also said that the Pentecostal movement
“was emphatically not of God and founded by a
sodomite.” 235
Fundamentalists typically held that miracles ceased
with the completion of the New Testament. Warfield
argued against tongues on that basis. They also used dispensationalism
to maintain that God no longer deals with
His people through visible miracles, signs, and wonders.
In 1928, the World’s Christian Fundamentalist
Association officially rejected speaking in tongues and
miraculous healing ministries. When it was formed in
1941, the American Council of Christian Churches specifically
excluded Pentecostals and those who had fellowship
with Pentecostals. In the 1980s, Jerry Falwell suggested
that speaking in tongues results from eating too much
pizza the night before and getting indigestion.
Thus it is a misnomer to speak of Pentecostals as
Fundamentalists. Of course, Pentecostals have historically
affirmed the five essential points of Fundamentalism
that we have presented—the verbal inspiration and
inerrancy of Scripture, the deity and virgin birth of Jesus,
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