Afraid not ...
From Paul's letter to the church at Corinth ... 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Quester, you are not as ignorant as the rest of the non-Catholics posting here. Surely you can understand that annalex was speaking of the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, which was to the Apostles only. The people addressed at Corinth have been baptised.
So of course they got the Holy Spirit, through baptism. Jesus passed the Holy Spirit on to the Apostles then sent them out to baptise the nations, thereby spreading the indwelling of the Spirit.
The claim is not that the Apostles were the only ones every to be indwelt, but that they were the first, and that their ministry was the vehicle used to pass it on to others.
SD
The Holy Spirit was given the Apostles only (John 15:26-27, John 20:21, Acts 2), ...
Afraid not ...
From Paul's letter to the church at Corinth ... 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Quester, you are not as ignorant as the rest of the non-Catholics posting here. Surely you can understand that annalex was speaking of the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, which was to the Apostles only. The people addressed at Corinth have been baptised.
Actually, Dave, I read and understood the statement in question ... exactly as it was written.
I had no way of knowing ... that the writer might have meant something other than what they wrote.
And ... might I suggest that your haughty spirit (as demonstrated above) ... does nothing to convince any non-Catholics that you may have any points worth considering ... and it is surely not representative of the love of Christ and/or His Church.
Annalex accepted my commrnt with much more graciousness.
I don't think I am ever unclear on that part. But the blindness to the reality of the Apostolic commission is such that the moment I point out who actually received the Holy Ghost according to the scripture, I am met with complete incredulity: "Does the Church really teach that?".