Do Pentecostals not research their religious origin??!
I swear every pente that I’ve come in contact with don’t know where Pentecostism came from. They will either say it started in the book of Acts, or Azusa street but they don’t know why or how. It started with some lunatic cult leaders that wanted to recreate the book of Acts.
Agnus Ozman is recorded to be the first to bring back speaking in tongues. She was in some weird trance and was speaking gibberish and was scribbling on paper at the same time. Everyone thought it was Chinese .. so what did they do? They took it overseas and come to find out it was nothing but gibberish. No real language. So they just called it a heavenly language.
Power. It all started with power and control by some lunatic criminal men that raped and murdered people. Charles Fox Parham, John Alexander Dowie, John G Lake. That’s who the founding fathers of the religion are. And that’s when it all made sense to me.