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Re: Baptism: Essential or Not
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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
Good point, forgot about that breaking legs stuff.
Don't know. Jesus said one must be born again. John said Spirit would not given til after he was glorified. Why couldn't spirit be given before he was glorified???
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Yet we have examples of those before the cross who were "filled with the Holy Ghost" or "full of the Holy Ghost" before the cross. I agree John's statement makes it clear the Spirit was not yet given. I've wondered this myself and don't a have definitive understanding. The Spirit was not yet given yet it was. Moses, the 70 elders, John the Baptist, and others were said to have been full of the HG or the Spirit of God. Perhaps two separate issues. The baptism of the Holy Ghost as recorded in Acts is a different work than the impartation of God's Spirit? Just asking...
Jesus did say that all we had to do was ask our heavenly Father for the Spirit and it would be given to us. John says that whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and He in us.
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