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The manifestation of the Holy Spirit, as is recorded in Acts 10 and Acts 2, is not recorded anywhere else. These are special circumstances that are not repeated.

In your post you said: "Read that ... I am left with the belief that those that preach the CROSS + ANYTHING ELSE is the teaching of the foolish that are unable to rightly divide the word of God and makes the preaching of the cross of no effect"

You took 2 verses from a whole passage of Scripture out of context. Paul admitted he had baptized a few of them there, but was speaking against a problem where some where placing their allegiance to the one who had baptized them. He states that their thinking was wrong, and that they should place their allegiance in Christ. His primary duty was to preach the Gospel, but He never said that baptism was not a part of the Gospel.

You did not answer me.. do you believe the Holy Spirit indwells the unsaved man ? That was the question.
Most of Christianity reads Acts 10 as intended, You have had to stretch and bend it to make it fit, and in doing so you have have had the Holy Spirit indwelling the unsaved men and giving manifestations of that indwelling that is reserved for the saved.

You took 2 verses from a whole passage of Scripture out of context. Paul admitted he had baptized a few of them there, but was speaking against a problem where some where placing their allegiance to the one who had baptized them. He states that their thinking was wrong, and that they should place their allegiance in Christ. His primary duty was to preach the Gospel, but He never said that baptism was not a part of the Gospel.

I am not taking anything out of context..

Here is Pauls words
1Cr 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

1Cr 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1Cr 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1Cr 1:20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1Cr 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Read verse 21 again ...Paul's words ..preach the gospel ...save those THAT BELIEVED ... not those that believed and were baptized.. If the baptism was necessary for salvation... He would have added those words AND He would have baptized . What kind of a man would take a man half way to salvation and then just leave him?