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What is this "Baptism of the Holy Spirit?"
Pentecostals build their distinctive theology on five episodes in Acts regarding the gift of the Spirit from the following:
(1) the disciples on the day of Pentecost (2:1–13),
(2) the believers at Samaria (8:14–19),
(3) Saul of Tarsus (9:17–18),
(4) Cornelius and his household (10:44–46), and
(5) the disciples at Ephesus (19:1–7). In general terms, these “five events in the Book of Acts become the Biblical precedents of Spirit Baptism.”
From reading these scriptures I interpreted them to say it was a normative experience for those who were saved in the early church.
These examples all involve those who were believers before they received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. Through reading these examples I had faith to ask for an receive this experience myself in 1981.
Pentecostals build their distinctive theology on five episodes in Acts regarding the gift of the Spirit from the following:
(1) the disciples on the day of Pentecost (2:1–13),
(2) the believers at Samaria (8:14–19),
(3) Saul of Tarsus (9:17–18),
(4) Cornelius and his household (10:44–46), and
(5) the disciples at Ephesus (19:1–7). In general terms, these “five events in the Book of Acts become the Biblical precedents of Spirit Baptism.”
From reading these scriptures I interpreted them to say it was a normative experience for those who were saved in the early church.
These examples all involve those who were believers before they received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. Through reading these examples I had faith to ask for an receive this experience myself in 1981.