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“BTW...on this obviously Philip was touching him during the baptism so Philip did have his hands on him. Scripture doesn’t say explicitly but one can assume that if the eunuch received Gods’ spirit it happened then. If not then the eunuch may have hands laid on him later as we saw in other instances.”


LOL. Quite absurd. According to your cult, the laying on of hands is a separate event that is done with prayer for that specific purpose. The Apostles didn’t just go nudging people and giving them the Spirit, at least the way you see it, as otherwise the entire ritual would be handled during the dunking of the individual on all occasions, or, perhaps, even by accident if you just happened to bump into the Apostle Paul in the middle of the street. From the United Church of Beelzebub’s website again:

“The NEXT step [after Baptism] on our road to eternal life is to receive God’s Holy Spirit, which comes through “laying on of hands,” as described in Hebrews 6:2. From the Scriptures, we find that water baptism is FOLLOWED by the ceremony of laying on of hands, at which time we receive God’s Spirit... the Holy Spirit was not given until Peter and John prayed and laid their hands on them... We see that God’s Holy Spirit is given to us by the prayer of and laying on of hands by God’s ordained ministers, serving as His representatives.” (All Caps on specific words mine)

http://www.ucg.org/booklet/road-eternal-life/water-baptism-and-laying-hands/

Furthermore, EVERY time the Apostles laid hands on someone, visible and miraculous signs and wonders followed, which did not occur with the Eunuch at all, aside from maybe Philip himself disappearing into thin air, followed with the Eunuch going on his way “rejoicing” into his home country. Wait till he finds out he got jipped! He’ll be VERY sad to find out he’s still going to hell!


33 posted on 12/23/2013 4:01:59 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Hold on...I'm going to edit your response and remove the insults and the smarmy, sarcastic tone:

The next step [after Baptism] on our road to eternal life is to receive God’s Holy Spirit, which comes through “laying on of hands,” as described in Hebrews 6:2. From the Scriptures, we find that water baptism is followed by the ceremony of laying on of hands, at which time we receive God’s Spirit... the Holy Spirit was not given until Peter and John prayed and laid their hands on them... We see that God’s Holy Spirit is given to us by the prayer of and laying on of hands by God’s ordained ministers, serving as His representatives.

Well THAT'S much better..... :-).

Seriously dude if you want to anyone to take you seriously as a Christian you have to do this:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control....

Or:p

Jam 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Jam 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Maybe it's just me or maybe it's your posting style but I don't see a whole lot of these types of qualities in you...

34 posted on 12/23/2013 4:17:09 PM PST by DouglasKC
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