LovethroughDove
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No. If that was true, Peter would not have directed Cornelius and his household to be water baptized after they received the Holy Spirit.
You are getting hung up on water as being literal. I know water in reference to "water of life", and living water.
John 7:38-39 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.