After having established Zion City, Illinois as a commune for his Christian Catholic Church cult, John Alexander Dowie began …

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  1. The Pentrcostal movement, of which I used to be a part, was founded by people who, based on their actions, were likely not even saved. I'm a conservative Christian, not Pentecostal any more.

  2. Many of the founders of the Assemblies of God (AG) came out of Zion City. I wonder if that's why the AG was willing to allow many of those AG members back into the denomination after the healing campaigns. Those guys didn't really changed their ways and helped in ushering in the Charismatic Movement. Bob DeWaay, of Gospel of Grace Fellowship in Minnesota, spoke about attending an AG college in Minnesota where they taught reading the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts to translate them. So there was some AG pastors who knew what the Word actually said, not allegorizing them.

  3. Very interesting to know that John A Dowie was–NOT–a paragon of virtue.

    The whole thing reminds me of Joseph Smith. He got his so called prophesy about god wanting men to have plural wives and didn't bother to tell his wife. Instead he started secretly marrying other women. If he wanted the wife of a man who trusted him completely, he just sent the man on a "missionary journey." When the man came back, his wife was married to JS, who then would say, God told me to marry her.

    When his wife Emma found out, she was furious and wasn't going to put up with it and was fighting it and then JS somehow got a so called revelation from God that was directed at Emma and said her name and told Emma that this whole thing was of God and that she had to be ok with it. I think it said she would be cursed or die or something if she wasn't. So, she put up with it. Then JS died and Emma stayed behind as the cult movement her husband started left that part of the country. Wonder why.

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