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Pastor Alan Campbell is the and Lecturer in the British Israel movement. Campbell is also popular in Historicist circles because of his identification of the Papacy as the Antichrist of Biblical Prophecy . Although his credentials as a pastor have been challenged, he has produced newspaper clippings and even the sermon preached at his ordination to prove the authenticity of his profession. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Campbell was born in Belfast on August 6 1949 into a staunchly Presbyterian home, in a Roman Catholic area. His grandmother was a very firm adherent of the doctrine of British Israelism, and thus he was exposed to this teaching from a very early age. Despite his upbringing, however, he didn't experience a true Conversion to Christianity until September 19 1965 , when he repented in the Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church after listening to Ian Paisley preach on Matthew 8:12 ("But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth"). Campbell states that, shortly after being "saved" (a common term among at the Revival Hall on the East side of Belfast . My only problem was that these people were Pentecostals who Spoke In Tongues , which ran contrary to everything I was taught at my own church where speaking in tongues was forbidden. However after some time I reached the conclusion that if the folks at the Revival Hall were correct about the Israel message then they must also be right about the Pentecostal experience and so I began to seek for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit ." After several nights of Prayer , Campbell finally spoke in tongues, and has subsequently written a tract not only chronicling this experience but defending Pentecostal phenomenon, entitled "What the Bible Teaches About the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Speaking in Tongues". Because of his "Kingdom Identity" views (which hold that Israel, not the church, is the bride of Christ , in contradiction to the teachings of the Westminster Confession Of Faith ) and his conversion to Pentecostalism, Campbell left the Free Presbyterian Church Of Ulster and, while he continues to promote Ian Paisley and his literature (as well as to adhere to the Presbyterian doctrine of Calvinism ), many of the clergy that Paisley moderates have attacked Campbell, such as Reverend T.A. Dunlop , to whom Campbell responded in his tract " British-Israel, Fact or Fiction? ". |
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