The 125 people at Pentecost who were there awaiting the Holy Spirit to fall, were already believers, and already saved,
Where is this stated in Scripture? How could they have been saved
prior to the atonement of Christ on the cross by which salvation was obtained for the unsaved? There is no salvation apart from the crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus. To say otherwise is to preach another Gospel - a version of the Gospel which makes the sacrifice of Christ unnecessary, achievable by other means entirely and is, essentially, blasphemy.
yet the HS came upon them with wind and fire, fulfilling what John the Baptist said, that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Ghost and with Fire - thus its obvious there is a further infilling, or baptizo in the Greek, an immersion in the HS.
Scripture is replete with verses explicitly teaching that it is by the indwelling of the Spirit that one is spiritually regenerated - born-again (
Romans 8:9-11; Titus 3:5; 1 John 4:13, etc.) And this is exactly what
Acts 2 portrays. That the Spirit came upon the assembled disciples at Pentecost - that it was not already within them as a divine regenerating agent - clearly indicates they were not yet made alive in Christ.
In scripture we see the apostles laying hands on believers who were already saved, for them to receive the Holy Spirit.
The passages to which you are referring never say these believers were "born-again," or "redeemed," or "converted," or "saved." Where, then, do you get the idea they were saved? As the verses I cited above tell us, there is no spiritual regeneration without the Spirit indwelling a person, which had not happened to any of those upon whom the apostles had laid their hands.
Everyone born again has a measure of the Holy Spirit, and being filled with Holy Spirit is being baptized with the HS, just as John prophesied Jesus would do - being filled as opposed to having a measure of the HS.
The Holy Spirit is a
Person, not a gas, or amorphous force. And just like any person, he is all there wherever he is. The Holy Spirit doesn't, then, come into a person piecemeal, giving the new believer a bit of himself, like a slice of pizza. What's more, nowhere in all of Scripture is there a teaching that a born-again person has only "a measure" of the Holy Spirit.
You're off the beam with your proof text.
The sign the evil generation asked for, was for Jesus to prove He was the Messiah, demanded by unbelievers.
As opposed to Jesus saying that those who believe have signs following them, of speaking in tongues and laying hands on the sick and healing them, per
Mark 16.
It’s always interesting to see the rationalizations and wrong assertions of those on the outside looking in.
Goodness! The pot calling the kettle black, here!
The Ethiopian eunuch didn't speak in tongues when he was saved. Neither did the Philippian jailer or any of his household. Paul didn't heal sick Trophimus (
2 Timothy 4:20); he didn't miraculously heal ill Ephaphroditus, either (
Philippians 2:25-26), who nearly died from his illness. Paul's answer to an ailing Timothy was to take a little wine for his stomach complaint, not pray in faith for miraculous healing. And no one miraculously healed Dorcas who died. She was later resurrected, but only when Peter showed up (
Acts 9:36-42). None of the believers with Dorcas could do anything to prevent her death. And none of them were able to resurrect her, either. Only a specially-empowered apostle was able to do so.
The last half of Mark 16, by the way, is a contested passage, being thought by many Bible scholars to be a later accretion to the Gospel.
You are building the proverbial straw man, then knocking him down.
An analogy of how it works is getting your glass half full at salvation, and later having the glass filled to the brim.
You receive the HS at salvation, but aren’t filled with the HS - as happened in many instances in the NT with the laying on of hands.
??? I've not framed up a Strawman at all. And simply saying I have in no way shows that I have.
There is no one in all of the NT who teaches anything like what you propose here about getting the Holy Spirit in bits and pieces. I already explained - biblically - what being filled with the Spirit is and how it differs from being baptized in the Spirit. Nothing you assert here does anything at all to refute my explanations. You just assert stuff in the above quotation like it is somehow self-evident you are correct. Yikes!