RE: Question: Can a man be baptized with the Holy Spirit though not yet baptized with water? [Part 1 of 2] We want to upvote for your Comment Feedback on Topic Video 350🇳🇬

Hello brethren, I have a different view concerning this. I believe that God words in diverse and dynamic ways.
First of all, baptism in water is simply a sign, or proof that we believe and have accepted Jesus Christ. It is a symbol of being born again. It is not that it really has an effect on our salvation, or our faith in God.

Secondly, this pattern of water baptism before baptism in the Holy Ghost was not experienced by Cornelius and his family and friends in Acts 10.

44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

From the Scriptures above, we notice that while Peter was still preaching to Cornelius and his family and friends, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, and they began to speak in tongues, an evidence of their baptism in the Holy Ghost. Their faith was strong and firm that the word of God was deeply rooted in their hearts as it was proceeding from the mouth of Peter. It was after this experience that Peter asked that they be baptized in water, simply to be an evidence that they are born again.