Did everyone?

[stmatthew]

Originally Posted by Adino

Ignoring the language of Luke is your prerogative, Bro.. Evidence is strong that those of Samaria were not receiving the indwelling Spirit, but an impartation of some spiritual gift as the elders came to lay hands on them (1Timothy 4:14; Romans 1:11). It was this ability to impart which Simon wished to purchase from the elders. The man who RECEIVES the Spirit at faith subsequently RECEIVES blessings from that self-same Spirit as God sees fit.

Accept it or not, there are alternative plausible ways of interpreting the passages you have grown accustomed to viewing through a lens handed down to you from 20th preachers in early American pentecostalism.

It is not I that is ignoring what is plainly stated. You have read into this something that is not there. How many ways can one view it when it plainly states that the Holy Ghost had not fallen on them, but then goes on to clarify that after prayer the RECEIVED the Holy Ghost.

Act 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Act 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Act 8:17 Then laid they [their] hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

I am sorry, but either they didn't have it, and received it, or they didn't have it, and received it.