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HOLY GHOST FIRE?Most Charismatic groups teach that a person receives the Holy Ghost sometime AFTER they've received Christ as Saviour, but this is plain heresy. Romans 8:9 tells us that a person does not even belong to Christ if that person doesn't have the Spirit of God, so salvation and the baptism of the Holy Ghost are SYNONYMOUS, not separate.To further the confusion, such groups also refer to this event as a "baptism of fire" or "Holy Ghost fire." The only baptism of fire in the Bible is the one that John spoke of when he spoke of Christ burning sinners in UNQUENCHABLE fire (Mat. 3:11-12). The only time a person is baptized in fire is when he is cast into the LAKE of fire (Rev. 20:14-15). All believers are baptized with the Holy Ghost, but sinners are baptized with fire. So, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the baptism of fire are as opposite as daylight and dark. Leave it to the Charismatics to confuse matters and actually PRAY for the "baptism of fire" or "Holy Ghost fire."