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Can an unsaved person receive the Holy Spirit?
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But then if they received the Holy Spirit, wouldn't that make them saved?
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There is still acceptance, repentance, and perseverance until judgment day.
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I think a better question would be, can the holy spirit enter an unsaved person. I tend to lean towards God being able to do anything so I think it's possible. Why would be a different topic.
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The Holy Spirit won't dwell in a person unless they ask. Assuming this is the case then certainly.
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No. They can be moved by the Holy Spirit to receive Him. Until they believe and become regenerated, He can not dwell in a person.
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Receipt of the Holy Spirit instantaneously saves or salvation is instantaneously accompanied by receipt of the Holy Spirit, depending on whose theology you think is most consistent with the scriptures. So, if that is what you are asking, the answer is yes. But an unsaved person cannot receive the Holy Spirit and remain unsaved. If that is what you are asking, the answer is no.
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Can an unsaved person receive the Holy Spirit?
Depends what you mean by receiving. The OT believers were in the bosom of Abraham awaiting the acceptance of the wave offering made by Jesus to justify them to become saved believers. The prophets had the Holy Spirit upon them to deliver their messages. But then there was Cyrus who wasn’t a believer but was still moved by the HS to act according to God’s foreknowledge. The disciples that received the HS before pentecost was for understanding but the work they were to do, like the mantle of the prophets, wasn't. It accomplished the work to be done, often without understanding. If that makes sense.
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That typically is what happens at Baptism/Chrismation. When we are born again in the waters of Holy Baptism we receive the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, as St. Peter says in Acts 2:38, or as St. Paul says in Titus 3:5.
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The Spirit of God can rest upon the unsaved, as she did upon certain individuals in the Old Testament. That's a different thing, though, than the way in which Christians have her.
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Can an unsaved person receive the Holy Spirit? No. Can an unsaved person be guided by the Holy Spirit? Yes
"If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
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2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit." 1 Corinthians 12:2-4
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