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Originally Posted by awareness
What "recovery" and the "restoration" movements are missing is a Pentecost, with rushing mighty wind, tongues of fire, and speaking many languages.
That's what originated the foundational early church. Don't get that and the recovery and restoration are just hollow claims and efforts.
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Luke gives us an account of Pentecost and the Spirit being poured out on the 120. John gives this different account of Jesus coming and breathing into them, but old Thomas had stepped out for the day and didn’t participate in the “ experience”. The results of Pentecost was the preaching of the gospel and nowhere was the gospel preached that told people that Jesus was God and that now we all should look at God as a trinity.
Why would God want to pour out the Holy Spirit again on a bunch of people who morphed His person into a trinity? Is there supposed to be a great blessing in the “end times” on trinitarianism? Let’s take a vote on it and set up an orthodox dogma based on the vote?
Looks to me that a recovery of the church would be people repenting of going astray in trinitarianism and returning back to worshiping the God and Father of our Lord Jesus and “seeing” the man God raised from the dead, set at His right hand and gave all authority to.
The real question would be why does Jesus not exercise that authority to clear up the modalism question? Seems like it has been around for almost 2 millennia, as has trinitarianism. Neither, of course, were taught in the foundational church.