{"id":448,"date":"2011-07-01T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=448"},"modified":"2011-08-29T07:21:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:21:29","slug":"receipt-of-holy-ghost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=448","title":{"rendered":"When does one take receipt of Holy Ghost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Does receipt of the Holy Ghost take place at salvation or does it take place at a later time?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is commonly accepted that a person obtains salvation the moment he or she believes and accepts Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior; Rom. 10:9-10.\u00a0 At salvation, not all immediately receive the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 An example of this is Acts 8:14-17.\u00a0 Here is a group of people who had received and accepted the word of God, but did not receive the Holy Ghost until a short time later.\u00a0 Another example is found in Acts 19:1-6, where a group of disciples who were already believers, but had not received the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 The fore mentioned examples clearly demonstrate that the Holy Ghost does not automatically arrive at salvation.\u00a0 There is no formula or set time for when the Holy Ghost arrives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does receipt of the Holy Ghost take place at salvation or does it take place at a later time? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is commonly accepted that a person obtains salvation the moment he or she believes and accepts Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior; Rom. 10:9-10.\u00a0 At salvation, not all immediately receive the Holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}