What a contradiction of doctrine.
How can one be Pentecostal and not speak in tongues therefore unable to pray in the Holy Spirit as commanded to?
Nor can one experience the refreshing and the joy of fervent prayer in the Spirit.
How can a Pentecostal disciple praise and worship our Lord and God and the Father but by praying in tongues?
You are denying a fundamental truth here. You are denying the Bible evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The fundamental truth as a oral tradition of men or a written tradition of God, prophecy ?.
Believing, exercising the faith that comes from hearing God as prophecy is all the evidence needed to believe God .
When those develop their own oral traditions as a sign they are mocking God like those in Jerimiah 44 and saw no evil in doing so . God simply with mocking lips brings his interpretation as revelation in the langue's or tongues of others as he did at Pentecost. Yet for all that they clung to the oral traditions that did make the word of God without effect in a hope that their new oral tradition would confirm they are believers.
As for the
word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well,
and saw no evil. Jerimiah 44
I would offer as David said in the Psalms if men destroy the foundation of the doctrines of God .What can those who are trusting in the imputed righteousness of Christ do righteous .
From my experience Pentecostals leave out the foundation found in Isaiah
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
For with
stammering lips and
another tongue will he speak to "this people".To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:
yet they would not hear. But the
word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.Isiaha 28:10 -14
Once a person establishes
what the sign confirms and who it is pointing to the rest of the doctrine falls into place Not a sign gift, the gift is we can hear God by faith (the unseen). But to those who seek after a sign believe prophecy is not all the evidence needed to believe God .
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.Wherefore
tongues are for
a sign,
not to them that "believe", but to them that believe not: but
prophesying serveth not for them that "believe not", but for them which believe.1 Corinthians 14:21-22
Tongues, God bringing new revelations in other languages other than Hebrews alone is a sign against those who do not hold prophecy as a higher authority than that the oral traditions of men . Its easy to see with the law above pertaining to God bringing His prophecy in other language's exactly what it does confirm as a sign. Yet for all that they still refuse to believe. But rather do whatsoever their own mouth says and see no evil in doing so . We walk by faith the unseen eternal .