The Pentecostal movement was destined to launch itself not just vertically with a variety of black-majority or white-majority congregations affiliated with Pentecostal teachings and practice but also horizontally into every Protestant denomination in the country, eventually changing the face of Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, across the globe. Its message and appeal were cross-cultural and multiethnic, and it spoke many languages, human and spiritual. Some studies suggest that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, one in four Christians around the world was Pentecostal or charismatic.
Useless and hopeless effort can crush the human's soul!
Boş ve umutsuz çabalar insan ruhunu ezebilir!
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
"Ben kuş değilim ve hiçbir ağ beni tuzağa düşüremez: Ben bağımsız bir iradeye sahip özgür bir insanım."
Instead of a distinct supernatural being suddenly breaking through the clouds to create the world, God, Liberals said, had been working for ages through natural law, slowly building the universe as we find it today until human beings developed an awareness of their spiritual selves. Most liberals agreed with the poet who said, “Some call it evolution, and others call it God.”
Liberals believed that Christian theology had to come to terms with modern science if it ever hoped to claim and hold the allegiance of intelligent men and women of the day. They refused, therefore, to accept religious beliefs on authority alone. They insisted that faith had to pass the tests of reason and experience. The human mind, they believed, was capable of thinking God’s thoughts after him, and the best clues to the nature of God were human intuition and reason.
At first some owners strongly opposed teaching the Scriptures to their slaves. They feared that the slaves might find in the Bible ideas of human equality that could incite them to rebellion. Opposition declined, however, as masters became convinced that the New Testament itself offered arguments in support of slavery. Some masters were persuaded that the best slaves—those willing to accept the control of their white masters—were those who knew the Bible best.
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