Statement of Fundamental Truths

Subsequently, however, a Statement of Fundamental Truths was adopted. The document demonstrated that the Assemblies of God are Trinitarian (believing in God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and Arminian (accepting the doctrines of grace and free will as espoused by the 16th–17th-century Dutch theologian Arminius). They also…

…members thought that the Council’s Statement of Fundamental Truths was a regression to the conventional ecclesiasticism from which many Pentecostals had just recently emerged and sought to create an alternative. Indeed, the new group demonstrated its independence by establishing rather liberal policies on ordination, church membership, and the issue of…