' born again christian '......?
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yep born sinners, born again is simply referring to when Jesus answered the rich man's question. \n\nHow do you get to heaven.\n\nYou are reborn.\n\nHow you can't go back into your mother.\n\nYou are re born of the spirit.
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I'm a convert - I am born to a buddhist family but I chose Jesus as my personal saviour six years ago. I don't fall into a denomination - so I guess I am non-denominational - but I am Born Again just as it is said in John 3:3. I think it is right because, this is how Jesus says is the way in the Bible and what He says goes.
1151937
Nope..The whole concept of being a Christian comes from the Bible and apart from that there is no way to become a Christian..  Jesus said you had to be born again.  There is no other book I know of that says how to be born again and have a personal relationship with God himself, only the Bible talks in those terms..  \nA christian that doesn't believe the Bible really isn't a christian.  \nAn electrician that rejects the concept of electricity..\nHere lies the crux of the problem.. Christians have had a spiritual experience with God that you cannot see, but experience inside of their mind and will.  It is positive and beautifal and we love what has happened to us.  No one else can taste, feel, or measure what has happened except the person that it has happened to.  That is why Christians are so sure of what they have.  \nA non christian is puzzled by this and reads the same Bible and can't get the same answer, because they haven't had the experience..  \nI understand how the non christian feels as I was once a non christian and didn't understand..  I can still remember thinking that these guys are fruitcakes.  But now I am one of them and never ever want to go back to my old life.  Jim I am so happy and fulfilled in my life that I would never exchange it.
703219
what a shock another Christian reporting sumone who cant have a option...your sooooo right about the born again christian 99% of them have come of drugs or drink the weak minded haha the other christians have had it prounded into there sytems since birth from there parents that is how it survive's(just) but its a dying breed\n\n\ni doubt very much you'll get a good answer from a christian about this they just make excuse's and avoid the question..and preach to you
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(resounding amen coming from a fellow believer)\nThat was beautiful sister, i really am so glad someone did this, anyway i really hope people can read this with out opininionated ideals and theology. God is God and who are we to define who he is. My point is we are so caught up in our selfishness and selfcenteredness, we reject proper biblical teaching. remember the enemy comes to steal, murder and destroy, but Christ came to redeem us.\nand again AMEN!!!!!!
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I am a born-again Christian and this is the way I see things.\n\nThe only thing Jesus 'called' us to do is love one another. When he was asked what his commandments to us are, that is all he said for us to do.\n\nWe must concentrate fully on knowing God, and doing everything with love as our motivation. You might 'do' preaching or evangalism, but most Christians have plenty of oppurtunity to be a 'light' to workmates, the stranger in need on the street, the poor, etc, etc, etc.\n\nWe must also remember that for the first 30 years of his life, Jesus lived nearly in obscurity - not because he couldn't do what he had to do at 16 years old, or 13, or 10 - but because he wanted to demonstrate that we have to learn live for him in the mundane, everyday life - BEFORE he will use us for anything as spectacular as miracles, healing, etc.
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If they are born again. It is not hard to do, but someone who rejects God cannot do it. For the first step is to believe that God exists, second believe that one falls short of His glory (admit sin) third see that Jesus is the perfect Lamb of God who died to take away the sins of the word, who rose again to conquer death and rose to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.
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If you'r a Christian and a true believer, then what is it thats confusing you. Don't you read the Bible? Where does it say anywhere in the Bible that anyone except Jesus ever came back from the dead to live a new life? No, I do not believe in past lives.
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I called myself a Christian for years.  I wasn't really but I didn't know it at the time.  My mother was Catholic & dad was atheiest.  After husband's death I became a Wiccan.  I studied all sorts of reiligions because I wanted to understand everyone:), I know it's impossible but I have tried.  I became a born again Christian November 2001.  I try to quit putting God in a box and dusting Him off when I want something.  I try to follow the guidelines in the Bible and live as Christ, loving all and praying for all.  Somedays I really just stink at it, I am a work in progress.
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I agree with you 100%, and I am a Born Again Christian myself.  Whenever I visit a Christian book store, I am sickened by the barrage of pseudo-Christian mumbo jumbo that's foisted upon us.  Having said that, I readily admit there's alot of really helpful stuff out there.  As with any purchase, the buyer should use common sense.  There's really no need to own a jewelry box full of "The Passion of the Christ" necklaces and stick pins.  \n\nBut theres nothing wrong with a person buying at least three translations of the Bible, a concordance and books containing solid theological teachings.  Oh -- and at least one "Jesus Fish" for your car (yes, I have one).\n\nAs far as televanglism, I go by one rule of thumb:  if he or she asks me to "sow a financial seed" so I can receive future blessings, I turn the channel and never watch that person's broadcast again.
1179712
You're a funny girl. As you probably well know, born again means in a spiritual, not physical sense. Also, I bet there are quite a few people who call themselves Christians that believe in reincarnation.
769943
I don't know Ted personally but if he is a born-again Christian and has asked God for forgiveness for his sins and has done what the Bible has said to do when committing sins after being saved he would still be a true Christian.
905376
None at all.  Born again is a term that Christians use to show that their life has restarted. Simple as that.
873329
Is this the way to offer their respect?\nWhat Christian figure will come out of the closet next? Jesus?\nor this from the CPT.\nTHE CPT: So if you become a born-again Christian, you basically got brainwashed in drug rehab?\nAll the born-again christians I know used to do drugs, went to rehab, and currently walk around homeless with 'crazy eyes' asking for change..... \n\nIt just keeps up that way all the time. If that's what they mean by respect they can just confess that they hate us...  Jim
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At this point.  thanks for confirming the word I got from Holy Spirit a few moments ago....be back later, possibly much later.  I do cherish some relationships I have formed with believers and 2 people I saw saved.  But it is becoming harmful.\n\nBlessings,\nDavid
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This is a good dilemma for the Born Again crowd.  Of course to those of us who belong to church of revealed rather than traditional religion it poses no problem.  God the Father and Jesus Christ are NOT the same person.  The Bible never teaches that they are the same person.  Therefore there is no problem about what God the Father was doing at the time His son was born into mortality.  They are two separate and distinct personages.  Both members of the Godhead--NOT the trinity as apostate Christians attempt to explain.
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Everyone who is born again by the Holy Spirit of God is a "real" Christian. Any other definition comes from men and not God. However, there are different levels of Christian maturity and commitment and Christ likeness. Also there are people who claim to be Christians because they go to church and have heard the gospel message but are not true Christians.\n\n1 Corinthians 12:13  For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.\n\n1 Corinthians 3:1 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.  (2)  I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,  (3)  for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?\n\nMatthew 13:19  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.  (20)  As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,  (21)  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.  (22)  As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.  (23)  As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."