[Such a person] is blinded; he is off the track.
He cannot know nor understand spiritual things.
He is a blind leader of the blind. [It should be
noted that the 'baptism of the Holy Ghost' as
here referred to would only be considered valid
if it is received according to the Oneness
Pentecostal ideal. If one has not spoken in
tongues, he has absolutely no claim to the
indwelling of the Spirit.] The simplest, most
ignorant one with the Holy Ghost is more qualified
than they [ones without the Holy Ghost], no matter
the amount of education they may have received
p 86-87
The other idea was that unless one was baptized in
Jesus' name he, in effect, had not been baptized
properly at all, had not been born again, and his
salvation was in question.59 This second aspect
was exemplified in the demand for re-baptism of
those formerly baptized in the trinitarian formula.
Re-baptisms occurred by the scores.60 Salvation
was now contingent, not upon faith in the person
and work of Christ, but upon a technicality of
wording in the baptismal formula.
p.101
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