Assuming that 'Spirit baptism' is the the correct term/concept here, your words turn on themselves. Earlier you say that being indwelt by the Spirit is the baptism of the Spirit, do you not? We say being indwelt IS the cause of those subsequent facts, to include salvific faith and being placed "in Him", and born again. So why the objection here?
Same. If Spirit baptism is what you claim it is —i.e. being reborn— then we do say that the Holy Spirit indwells the believer.
Once again: The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is not caused by faith. The gift —the Spirit of God, which is the very cause of salvific faith— is free, and so the faith he produces inside us is, too. We cannot produce it. Your questions assume, somehow, that the indwelling is somehow according to the volition of the believer née unbeliever. You have not proven otherwise. Your logic needs to begin there.
Presumptive claim, that God never took up residence in a believer until after the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus. That is not what the Bible says. It is what you attach to what the Bible DOES say. While I happily grant you, Jesus speaks in terms that TO US are implicative of some kind of displacement, that if Jesus does not leave, the Advocate will not be here, we can't use that verse alone to imply that the Spirit is always and everywhere and in every way only localized.
You are speaking as though the human view of reality is all there is to be considered.
Read this very carefully. What does it say? Indwelling, the placing into is the result of faith. Paul could not have made it any clearer.
Galatians 3
1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?
2
This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish?
Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?
6 Therefore
He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?--
6 just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."
9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
110 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith."
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them."
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
18 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin,
that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
24Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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Even going back a chapter 2 in Galatians, Paul tells us this regarding this same baptism, just like it says in Romans 6.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ
(born again); it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Romans 6:
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Dave
