What does having the Holy Spirit mean?

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

This is exactly how I feel about those who in spite of what the Scripture actually says about what it means to be born again insist on their own interpretation rather than simply accepting what the Bible says.

Take your own medicine. Simply accept what the Bible says about The Spirit indwelling and what is manifest with it.

If the Spirit falls without tongues why interrupt Peter at Cornelius' place? Could not the Spirit have been given nice and quietly? Why cause a ruckus in the middle of a perfectly good sermon?

44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

Tongues is how they knew then and it is how we know now. Simple.


Consider Peter's response in explaning the matter at Jerusalem:

11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.


Notice Peter didn't make mention of tongues, yet we know that they spoke in tongues when the Holy Ghost came. Where was Peter's neccessary redundancy?


God Bless, Theo.