John 3 and Water Baptism in the Ministry of Jesus Christ

[hornetguy]

““Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?””
‭‭Acts‬ ‭10‬:‭47‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/act.10.47.ESV

Again, you are making this say something that, in context, it is not saying.
This would be equivalent to saying "I passed my driving test at 16... and my friend George passed it just as I did" It doesn't mean we both answered the test questions in exactly the same way, or made every turn and stop exactly the same way. It means that we both passed the test the same way.... by taking the class and the driving test. One of us didn't get ours through mail-order. We got them in the same way.

And in the larger context, you are still missing the point that this was a ONE TIME HAPPENING. It was for a specific purpose.
IF this was the "normal" way to receive the Spirit, why does not EVERY story of conversion in the NT show us that?

You are trying to make scripture say what you want it to say...

 

[JBTN]

Peter said there was not one distinction in the way that the Holy Spirit was received by the House of Cornelius, the Apostles, and the elders. He could have said it in a way that would have allowed what you are saying, but he didn’t. If the conversion of the House of Cornelius was not “the norm” that would mean it was distinctively different.