Salvation the Pentecostal way

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Bro. Bill wrote:

| No, but many are less than 50K, what he was asking is in a nutshell (less
all
| the fancy words) what do you believe. Everybody should have a bottom
line. Do
| you believe Acts 2:38, do you believe that faith is all that is required,
maybe
| a short prayer once in a life, or something else. Most people I have met
could
| and would answer this question.
| 
| For Example: I beleive that Acts 2:38 is the plan of salvation, but I
also
| acknowledge that I am not God and that there maybe others ways, but I do
not see
| or teach them. I condemn nobody, but I do deny what I see as false (Bible
| denying) doctrine.

I think, Bro. Bill, that you have effectively summed up Bro. Steve's
position also :-).

All he is asking (in a very long, drawn out way) is whether it is
*possible* for there to be other avenues of salvation.  And if so, why are
we so quick to condemn all others to hell and refuse to call them
Christian?

Personally, I have to stick to the Acts 2, 8, 10, 19 scenario because that
is what the Holy Ghost tells me is the truth.  When someone asks me what *I
believe* people must do to be saved, I tell them.  Also, why adhere so
strongly to one doctrine if there could be others?  Why have faith in that
*method* at all if there are others?  It appears that if God allowed many
paths to heaven, it would be clearly outlined in scripture (all the
possibilities).  I simply don't see this myself.
But, that does not rule out the *possibility*...see?


Anneliese