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Why do the Pentecostal Protestants believe that Pentecost was 140 years after Christ rose from the dead?
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∙ 12y ago
None that I know of believe that. The day of Pentecost is one of the annual Jewish festivals. On the first day of Pentecost following Christ's resurrection (IIRC Pentecost was 50 days after Passover: thus the name), The Bible says in Acts that the Holy Spirit entered the disciples as they prayed and they went out among the people and preached the Gospel in foreign languages that they did not know but were understood by the visitors to Jerusalem for the festival of Pentecost. This resulted in the first expansion of the Word to lands outside Judea, as those visitors returned home.
What makes Pentecostals unique is their emphasis on this miracle and that it is expected that all real Christians can speak in other languages at the urging of the Holy Spirit. Some Pentecostal sects even go so far as to say you are not yet forgiven of your sins until you can manifest the miracle of speaking in unknown "angelic" languages.
However the miracle of Pentecost as described in Acts involves no unknown or "angelic" languages, all the languages spoken were known human languages. In my opinion there is no need for any such repetition of this miracle, as we have educated translators to translate the Word to any language needed now.
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