When Paul received the ability to work the miraculous gifts is not Holy Spirit, or the ability to do gifts of the Spirit is not completelyĬlear. With the Holy Spirit” is a reference to the promised indwelling of the Referring to when he says that Ananias came to restore Paul’s sight andįor him to be filled with the Holy Spirit? Probably, but whether “filled Miraculous gifts) was given to Paul at his baptism. Many passages, but most significantly, based on Acts 2:36-38, we canĪssume that the promised gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit (not Received the Holy Spirit later that day when he was baptized. You make one more statement/question, which is whether Paul Humble and avoid making really strong statements based on indirect Hands, but that this is not proven conclusively. Interpretation is that the gifts were only given by apostolic laying on of Therefore a safe statement is to say that the most likely Teaches absolutely that the miraculous gifts could only be passed by theĪpostles. That, there is no positive statement anywhere in the New Testament which Acts 8:9-17 seems to imply thatĪpostles were required for the miraculous gifts to be given. Long-term ability to perform these gifts. Those on whom the Holy Spirit was poured in Acts chapter ten received the These events were one-time occurrences, and there is no evidence that

The events ofĪcts chapter two and Acts chapter ten might appear to be an exception, but Holy Spirit except by laying on of hands of an apostle. In the New Testament of a believer receiving the miraculous gifts of the You in that claim, but would say that this is only the most reasonableĬonclusion based on the evidence. Only given by the laying on of hands of the apostles. You suggest that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit were Of Paul does not add anything unambiguous to the discussion of howĬhristians in the first century received the miraculous gifts of the Holy Passage in question does not answer this question. Received his sight when Ananias laid his hands on him, but we have noĮvidence that Paul received the gift of miracles at that time. Receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. It does say that Ananias came to Paul so that he would State that Paul received the gifts of the Holy Spirit when Ananias laid Twenty-two when Paul recounts the events in Antioch does not actually The context of Acts chapter nine and of Acts chapter Then Paul got the Holy Spirit at baptism. Maybe he laid his hands on him to restore his sight only, and

Laid his hands on Paul to restore his sight and be filled with the Holy Hands on people to give the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I have been told that only the apostles had the ability to lay their

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