[DouglasKC]

Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.” While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered, “Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?” And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

I did have a caveat in there explaining this...i will put restate it. This occurred the first time that gentile Christians were given the spirit of God. It also happened when the first Jewish Christians were given the spirit of God. These are the only two examples where the spirit of God was given without a laying on of the hands. Repentance is certainly assumed. Baptism came later for this gentiles.

The bottom line is that unless you were in that small group of the first Jewish Christians or that small group of the first gentile Christians then in the scriptures the normal way that Christians received the spirit of the Lord came though belief in the Christ, repentance, baptism and laying on of the hands.

[redleghunter]

laying on of the hands

So a fellow man needs to touch us in order to invoke the Holy Spirit to indwell us? I ask because of this:

John 3:

8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”