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In 1st Corinthians 1230, the Apostle Paul implies that not all believers speak with tongues.

If this is true, why does the Unina Pentecostal Church International teach that full salvation

includes Holy Spirit baptism and that everyone who receives this baptism will speak with other tongues?

Doesn't the UPCI's position contradict Paul's

writings? No, and let's start with the basics. First of all, in the New Testament Church,

receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is considered part of initial salvation,

what we might call conversion initiation.

Actually, all Christian groups will agree with that in theory, from Catholics or Protestants,

all will say that you must receive the Holy Spirit to be truly a Christian.

So that's what we say.

The difference is we expect there to be a very definite experience,

and we expect an initial sign called speaking in tongues

or speaking miraculously in a language we haven't learned by the Spirit.

Now, why would we do that?

Well, if you look at the very first example of the baptism of the Holy Ghost,

which is in Acts chapter 2. It's the birthday

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