You're mistaken. I do speak to the OP. Concerning the Galatians passage it appears you overlooked the phrase, "Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?" Paul gives no other options. If you refuse to accept the people receive the Spirit by believing the message, you're refusing to believe what Paul said.Paul's question to the Galatians doesn't answer the question of this thread. Of course they didn't receive the Holy Spirit by keeping the law. They had been keeping the law all their lives but didn't receive the Spirit until after they believed the gospel. They believed the gospel, they were baptized, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Your other example doesn't answer the question either and I'll show you why.
Act 19:2 - he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
Acts 19:2 poses the same question, and then answers it. "Did you receive...when you believed?" And the answer is no. They hadn't even heard of the Holy Spirit. Certainly they believed, but had not been baptized.
Then there's the case of the men and women of Samaria who believed and were properly baptized but did not receive the Spirit because Philip was unable to do it. He had to send for Peter and John. I had someone else say in this thread that anyone can baptize a person with the Spirit but that is obviously not true.
Now, to your first example. It was Peter who was preaching to the group when they received the Holy Spirit. Just as it was Peter who was called on to chrismate the Samaritans.
Concerning Acts 19 he's referring to disciples of John. They hadn't yet believed in Jesus as Paul says to them, "John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus."
Everyone who believes in Jesus has the Holy Spirit, "and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." Rom 8:9
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