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Originally Posted by Enow
So to ask for the filling of the Holy Spirit is to bear false witness that the Father did not give Him to you as promised at your salvation the first time for coming to and believing in Jesus Christ which is why we are to not believe every spirit but test them. If they lead us to believe otherwise as contrary to our faith in Jesus Christ, then it is not of God. That is why the line of discernment was given: greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world so that sensationalism in the flesh of receiving a filling phenomenon is the work of seducing spirits aka the spirit of error.
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Well, the following account in the book of Acts goes against your theory...
The samaritans had believed and were baptized, BUT not yet received the Holy Ghost.
Acts 8
12 But when
they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ,
they were baptized, both men and women.
13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
15
Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
16 (
For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
And also in
Acts 19, why is Paul asking believers "if they had received the Holy Ghost yet?"
Acts 19
1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
2 He said unto them,
Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
Please before you say they were John the baptist' disciples, recognize that the Apostle Paul did not know they were John the baptist's disciples when he asked them that question. He thought they had already believed the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hence the question "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"