Subject: Unforgivable sin |
Bible Note: Dear Gracefull, you asked, "Do you believe the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Godhead) would take up His abode in an unclean temple?" First of all, I do not believe that the Holy Spirit "takes up His abode" in any temple. I do, however, believe that "unclean" people, in this example Cornelius and his household, were "cleansed" by God in the sense that they did receive at least one spiritual gift in order to prove to Jewish Christians that salvation had come to ALL men. The fact that they did receive a gift(s) of the Holy Spirit does not negate the need for them to be baptized as Acts 10.48 clearly indicates. Second, Please list the scripure(s) refuting this. Third, the apostles in the upper room, I believe, had been baptized with John's baptism of repentance, but not yet baptized into Christ because Christ had not died yet. It wasn't until Christ died that John's baptism was nullified and baptism into Christ came into effect (Acts 19.1-5) |