born of water

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Originally Posted by jfrog

That doesn't validate your doctrine that a person can't recieve the true Holy Ghost if he believes justification isn't by faith alone.

All that is in Galatians 3 is a teaching that the Holy Ghost comes by faith and not works. It doesn't list a requirement that if you don't believe this you can't have the true Holy Ghost.

Paul clearly says that they had received the Spirit based on a message they had heard (vs 2, 5) He indisputably labels that message as justification by faith (verse 8). In verse 14 he clearly says it is by faith in that message that we receive the Spirit.

Justification by faith is the only message the Spirit will validate and endorse by filling someone.

Catholics and Mormons are not taught this, thus it is not the Holy Ghost they are receiving.