The complete response on Samaria and the laying on of apostles’ hands
Claim examined: God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit
Scriptural Answer
"Does the Bible say that we are born-again because we are baptised in water or because we believed?" John 3:5 states, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Water = Water (i.e. baptism)... (See Acts 10:47-48 and 1 Peter 3:21- 21, Compare Ephesians 5:26-27 with 1 Peter 1:23). You have no examples of Holy Spirit baptism in Scripture other than the two that I have told you many times before (The Jews on the day of Pentecost and the household of Cornelius) therefore, there is no such thing. If there is such a thing as Holy Spirit baptism, please explain to us Faith how it was possible that people could be baptized in the name of the Lord and still not have the Holy Spirit??? If there is only one case (and there is - see Acts 8:12-18), then it defeats the very doctrine that you say is true... The Holy Spirit was not given in the first century without the laying on of the Apostles hands and there were only two exceptions to this that I mentioned earlier...
KJV Scriptures Used
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