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A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

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2<br />

The Finished<br />

Work Controversy<br />

The first doctrinal division in the Pentecostal movement<br />

came over sanctification. Both Parham and<br />

Seymour embraced the Wesleyan-Holiness position that<br />

sanctification was a second work <strong>of</strong> grace, and they<br />

added the baptism <strong>of</strong> the Holy Spirit as a third experience.<br />

They taught that a person first had to be converted,<br />

or justified. Then he needed to be sanctified, at which<br />

time he was instantly purified from inward sin. Then and<br />

only then, he could be baptized with the Holy Spirit.<br />

Before we discuss the doctrinal division, let us trace the<br />

formation <strong>of</strong> several other important Pentecostal groups<br />

that advocated this teaching.<br />

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