Why Pentecostal is danger for christianity ?
Answer Hello and thanks for writing. Why is Pentecostalism a danger for Christianity? Well, mainly because I think its distinctives are only tangentially Christian. I think the New Age faith has entered into the church (and by extension society) through Pentecostalism. One could take dozens of individual issues in which Pentecostalism has perverted the Gospel, from Word-Faith to the Prosperity Gospel to the Toronto Blessing to tongues to phony signs and wonders to cultish behavior, but I think the main negative characteristic that covers all the errors is the elevation of the emotions and subjective experience over the mind and over legitimate authority. Historical Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant, promised man a glorious afterlife if he would have faith in what he couldn’t see and live according to God’s commandments. Pentecostalism, with its promises of health, wealth, worldly prosperity, miracles and a direct, exciting experience with God Himself, appeals to something ve
