06 - Chapter 06
CHAPTER 6 TENTH THROUGH THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY GLOSSOLAIA
900-1514 AD, Persecution of Oneness Anabaptist Pentecostals in Spain: Weisser speaking of Robinson’s book History Of Baptism wrote:
Robinson’s fourth period covered: eight hundred years or from 714-1514 AD. Weisser then mentions Oneness Movements in Spain: deemed heretical by the Catholics… were called in general Anabaptists…. In a council held at Lerida, in the archbishopric of Tarragon, it was decreed… that such as came from Antitrinitarians, who had been baptized in the name of Christ, should be rebaptized. [90]
1150-1500 AD, The Waldenses on Glossolalia: S. C. McClain, a One God Jesus’ Name historian in his work the Student’s Handbook of Facts in Church History, revealed: The Waldenses… believing in a Spirit-filled life, spoke in tongues…. They were branded as heretics by the Roman Church and… were put to death, the decree came from the Pope that they should be destroyed. [91] The Waldenses were a Christian sect that arose in southern France. Peter Waldo founded them in the second half of the 12th century. Waldo’s followers were first known as the “Pauperes” or “poor men of Lyon.” They were itinerant or traveling preachers under a vow of poverty. They beliefs have been erroneously associated with the Albigenses. It is hard to tell what these Christians believed. Their simple Bible-based preaching proved to be very popular, which help them to spread through Europe. In AD 1487, Pope Innocent VIII organized a crusade against them in France. Many Waldenses took refuge in Switzerland and Germany, merging gradually with the Bohemian Brethren.
1198-1698 AD, Catholic Pope Innocent III Formed the Demonic Inquisition for the Extermination of Oneness Pentecostal Churches: This heartless, cruel, inhuman Catholic institution, which was sardonically called the Holy Office, brutally tortured and burned alive millions of innocent, God fearing and Christ loving men, women and children. It did this contemptuously in the name of Christ for 500 years. Of all the Catholic Inquisitions, the Spanish Inquisition was the worst. Satan’s Son Pope Innocent III and every Catholic Pope after him gladly encourage and gave their divine blessings to the Inquisitors who were doing their Satanic god’s will. In fact it was the Inquisition that gave the Pope power over the kings of Europe. This is the main reason why these demonic popes, during this time, promoted and supported it.
1215 AD, The Fourth Catholic Lateran Council Against Oneness Pentecostals: Blunt speaking of this Catholic Councils who cursed the Oneness Antitrinitarian and some of the Catholics priest who were converted to their apostolic Jesus’ Name message wrote:
Antitrinitarianism then appears to be, not the genuine product of the Reformation, but the offspring of a school [of belief], which had existed in the Church for centuries before the Reformation was dreamt of.... The Antitrinitarian principle in early times expended itself in producing the Sabellian… heresies of Gilbert de la Porree, and Joachim, abbot of Flora, which were met in the fourth Lateran Council AD 1215. [92]
1248 AD, Ursinus: Glossolalia and Oneness Pentecostals: According to Arnold, Ursinus was a Catholic clergyman and a very learned scholar, who received the Holy Spirit and was converted to oneness: His doctrine was monotheism, Christ’s baptism, infilling of the Spirit, and speaking in tongues. [93]
1250-1299 AD, The Catholic Mendicant Friars: The Encyclopaedia Britannica speaking of members of this religious orders, who had taken a vow of poverty by which they renounce all personal and communal property, who also overcome the initial opposition of the established clergy of that day, revealed:
Glossolalia occurred among the mendicant friars of the 13th century. [94]
1341 AD, Pope Benedict XII Condemned the Catholic Armenian Churches for Converting to Oneness: Blunt declared that the Catholic Councils were still condemning Sabellianism in the fourteenth century. Some or many of the Armenian Churches during this time evidently converted to oneness. He said: A charge of the heresy was brought against a portion of the Armenian Church by [Pope] Benedict XII, see Raynald (Contin. of Baron.) AD 1341. [95]
1399-1409 AD, Catholic Monk Vincent Ferrer on Glossolalia and the Gifts of the Spirit: This renowned monk, teacher, missionary, and historian toured through Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Greece, and other peoples during this period of ten years. Arnold declared:
He found effusions of Pentecostal phenomena - tongues, miracles, healing. [96] [Burgess said this missionary:] was especially famous for his prophetic gift and for the many miracles of healing, which accompanied his evangelistic ministry. So great was his reputation that in the Netherlands an hour was set apart. [97] 1441 AD, The Testimony of Pope Eugenius IV Against the Oneness Jacobites: Hastings informs us that Pope:
Eugenius IV found it necessary to remind the Jacobites, in his decree dated 4th Feb. 1441 that the Church ‘condemns Sabellius for confusing the Persons and for thus altogether doing away with the real distinction between them. [98]
1500-1800 AD, The Anabaptists: The name “Anabaptists” refers to “anyone who baptizes again;” it refers to their practice of adult baptism only, and reject infant baptism. Large groups of Anabaptist existed centuries before the Reformation was even dreamed of, as I have already shown in this book, but many historians sadly choose to ignore them because they MANY of them were ONENESS Pentecostal Christians. As a result, they only speak of those who existed during the Reformation. The Reformation Anabaptists basically lived in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. They advocated nonviolence and greatly opposed state churches. Therefore, they opposed Protestant and Catholic Church organizations. MANY of them rejected the doctrine of the Trinity and were Modalist Monarchians, who declared the Lord Jesus Christ to be the one and only supreme God. Some Anabaptists wished to establish communal Christian communities, which would practice human equality, especially with respect to social, political, and economic rights and privileges. They opposed participation in civil government and the taking of oaths.
1520 AD, The Zwickau Prophets and Glossolalia: Their revivals in Germany were fluent in tongue talking:
Martin Luther (1483-1546) did not have direct contact with the more unusual gifts of the Spirit catalogued by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:1-31, notably glossolalia, interpretation thereof, and healing…. He was also familiar with the Zwickau Prophets, who derived something of their charisma from the Hussite tradition. Luther believed that… Christianity no longer required the confirmation of such signs. [99]
1525 AD, Anabaptists Bernhard Rothmann and Jan van Leyden: Glossolalia and Oneness Pentecostals: Arnold spoke of these men as a Jesus’ Name Anabaptists. He says: The great preachers, writers, scholars - Bernhard Rothmann and Jan van Leyden - burst into the medieval theistic scene…. They were monotheistic and pious partakers of the Holy Ghost, and knew Pentecostal glossolalia. [100] The Anabaptist Churches throughout Europe were filled with those who spoke in tongues, baptized in Jesus Name, and were very zealous to worship God in Spirit and truth. According to Hamilton: The Anabaptists emphasized the restoration of apostolic patterns of worship and lifestyle, the importance of a conversion experience, baptism of believers only, baptism by immersion, total separation of church and state, the power to overcome sin after conversion, and the need to live a holy life. [101]
These early Anabaptists worshiped God very demonstratively. According to A History of Civilization by Crane Brinton, their worship was: very excited and enthusiastic, in fact very similar to what is know in America as holy rolling. They would shout and dance and always sang hymns with great fervor. [102]
1529 AD, Andreas Carlstadt and Erasmus on Glossolalia: Arnold mentioned that Andreas Karlstadt, a professor of theology at the university of Basel, and the well know Greek scholar Erasmus, had a lengthy scriptural discussion with Luther on restoring the doctrines of the Biblical New Birth and the full and supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. They tried to persuade:
Luther to inject monotheistic Christian Pentecostalism into his Lutheranism! They pleaded, ‘Restore the pattern and even the constitution of the Primitive Church…. Luther accused Carlstadt of misunderstanding the expression ‘speaking with tongues....’ Almost at that moment the Christ of our New Testament let a Holy Ghost reviving spectacular break out at Zollikon, with speaking with tongues, miracles, and the whole Pentecostal allotment, right under his nose! He was also knowledgeable of the Zwickau Prophets. [103]
Karlstadt was a German religious reformer, who adopted doctrines later espoused by Martin Luther. He became associated with Luther in AD 1517, but he later championed doctrines that brought him into direct conflict with Luther’s theology. He was banished and later persecuted and in AD 1529 had to flee to Switzerland, where he was warmly received by the Swiss religious reformer Huldreich Zwingli and became professor of theology at the University of Basel.
Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Catholic Priest, who was a theologian, writer, and Greek scholar. Erasmus was ordained a priest in AD 1492 and studied Greek at the University of Paris. In AD 1499, Erasmus moved from city to city working as a tutor and lecturer and constantly writing and searching out ancient manuscripts. In AD 1503, he wrote, The Manuell of the Cristen Knyght, and in AD 1509, he wrote the famous satire, The Praise of Folie. Now, both of these works advocate a return to simple Christian ethics. In AD 1516, he completed his greatest word, a Greek New Testament, which was based on recently discovered manuscripts. He added to it critical notes on various verses. He also completed a new Latin translation, which was a more accurate version than the Latin Vulgate of that day. Because these works greatly influenced religious reformers of his time, Erasmus is sometimes called the father of the Reformation. In AD 1518, he composed a work entitled Colloquia, which was an exposed the evils and errors of the Catholic Church authorities. This naturally made him vulnerable to the accusation that he was a Lutheran, a charge he fervently denied.
Luther and his followers set up a Lutheran Inquisition to exterminate God’s holy and innocent Children. Professor Roland H. Bainton in his great work Hunted Heretic stated: The dissemination [spreading] of Anabaptism was so broad that both Catholics and Lutherans feared the established churches would be displaced.... At the Diet of Speyer in 1529 both Catholics and Lutherans agreed to subject them to the death penalty throughout the Holy Roman Empire.... They did not burn Catholics, but they drowned [Trinitarian] Anabaptist and they beheaded and burned Anti-Trinitarians [Anabaptist] whose beliefs were repugnant to most Protestants as well as to Catholics. [104]
Why would Catholics and Lutherans, who hated each other as heretics, join together and form a union to burn God’s Children? It is evident they were not only scared of God’s people evangelistic revival spirit, but they must have hated them more then they hated each other. I challenge anyone to show me anywhere in history, in any age, where God’s Apostolic Pentecostal Church ever persecuted or killed anyone for their religious beliefs. According to professor Earle Cairns, in his Christianity Through the Centuries: The Anabaptist in Germany faced extinction… from the state…. The Emperor ordered the bishop of Munster to drive out Rothmann and his followers, who were… proposing to sell property to aid the poor. Cairns continued by saying that the Anabaptist denied: the ideas of Luther and Zwingli. [105]
John Calvin, like Luther, believed that speaking in tongues was done away with, even though he knew of many large group of people who spoke in tongues and received the gifts of the Spirit. Hamilton wrote that Calvin said:
It was not at all strange that God had chosen to remove glossolalic utterances from the church rather than permitting them ‘to be vitiated with further abuse. [106]
1537 AD, Anabaptist Menno Simons and Glossolalia: Anabaptist groups continued to arise in Europe under different names. Many of these groups taught that speaking in tongues was the evidence of being born of the Spirit. One such group was known as the Mennonites, who was led by the Dutch reformer Menno Simons. The man was a very prominent Protestant Anabaptist of his time. According to Hamilton:
He wrote about speaking in tongues as if it were expected evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost…. [He] was evidently familiar with speaking in tongues on a scale sufficiently general to be able to write in his Treatise on Christian Baptism: ‘Although Peter was previously informed by a heavenly vision that he might go to the Gentiles and teach them the Gospel…. You are plainly taught that Peter commanded that those only should be baptized who had received the Holy Ghost, who spoke with tongues and glorified God. [107]
1553 AD, Calvin’s Persecution of Oneness Anabaptist Michael Servetus: The Encyclopedia Americana speaking of the Calvin’s Inquisition says:
Calvin introduced inquisitorial procedures into Geneva… [in] 1541. There were many victims, the most notable being Michael Servetus, who was burned in 1553. [108]
Miguel Servetus was no doubt the greatest one God, Jesus’ Name, Anabaptist preacher in the sixteenth century. This man was a Reformer, Theologian, Author, and an outstanding Medical Doctor. He was in his theology a Modalist Monarchian. Moyer speaking about him as a Medical Scientist says:
He was the real discoverer of the pulmonary circulation of the blood. [109]
1557-1685 AD, The French Huguenots and Glossolalia: Vinson Synan in his work entitled, Aspects Of Pentecostal-Charismatic Origins, stated: The phenomenon of speaking in tongues occurred among the Huguenots of France during this period. [110] Hamilton speaking of the glossolalia of the Huguenots wrote: A group of Huguenots (French Protestants), mostly peasants, who resisted the attempts of Louis XIV’s government to convert them to Roman Catholicism. Many were imprisoned, tortured, and martyred. Observers reported tongues, uneducated peasants and young children prophesying in pure, elegant French, enthusiastic, demonstrative worship, and people ‘seized by the Spirit. [111]