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kjv@Acts:8:16 @ (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

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kjv@Acts:8:16 > > RandyP :

They believed, but had not received the Spirit. Is this because they were Samaritan? Was the emphasis of this odd delay so that the Church could officially acknowledge and take note of the Spirit's cross over to the gentiles? If not, we can pursue several slippery slope theory's of the operation of the Spirit and when and how and by whom it can be received.