What does born again mean?

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Being born again is the transformation that occurs when the HS reveals how much God loves us and we respond to God and others with love rather than selfishness and fear. It is living life with profound gratitude and selflessness.

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It means that our dead human spirit that was separated from God is now made alive unto God the moment we accept Christ as Lord, by believing and confessing that He is the Son of God and was raised from the dead. Thus, our human spirit now indwells God's Spirit, making us children of God. It means that our sin has been washed away by the Blood of Jesus and we become new creations in Christ. It means we have been snatched from darkness into His marvelous light. But it is largely up to us whether we continue in that light. God Bless you richly.
 
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One can only be born anew after a death. Death means separation from what we once were. It is not a reform of the old nature like we see in " a Christmas carol". That is certainly a repentance and a change....but this was the type of conversion we see in the OT. It certainly makes one turn from evil to try doing good.

But being born again from heaven involves more than that. It is a new creation in Christ. ALL things are made new...not just improved.
 

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"Born again" is wrong understanding. Born from ABOVE, or born anew, is a more proper understanding.

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Gal 4:26 But the Yarushalayim that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Messiah told Nicodemus, as a "teacher of Y'israel", that he SHOULD KNOW these things.

Jhn 3:10 Yashua answered him, "Are you the teacher of Yisra'el, and don't understand these things?


All Beleivers belonging to Body of Messiah, (see Hebrews 11) are born from above, starting with Abel/Havel in Genesis. This isnt a "new church" thing.
 

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The words "born again" are bantered about quite regularly in today's world, and this at a time when we see less and less power in the lives of those who profess this new birth.

Is there something missing from our understanding of what it means to be born again (born of the Spirit, born from above)?

BORN AGAIN – OR “BORN FROM ABOVE”?

http://www.israelect.com/reference/ArnoldKennedy/%27Born%20Again%27%20or%20%27Begotten%20From%20Above%27~.pdf
 

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To the original question, we've been born again when we place our faith in Jesus Christ for our salvation and confess him Lord of our lives. What does born again imply? We have been created anew, a spiritual creation, born again by God's will, not the will of men (John 1:12-13). We've been born again into God's family, adopted by the Father. I always tend to think as simply as possible, since the Gospel can be taught to a child. We've been shown grace and mercy. Now about the issue such as the adulterous woman caught in the very act, Jesus shows compassion, and she believed on Jesus. She was born again. He told her not to sin again. Going to 1 John 2:1, "My little children, I am writing these things that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins".
Like most of us, if we were her, we would bring baggage along in the flesh to the newly created spiritual man. Jesus knows we will sin from giving into temptation because of this baggage, and Romans 7:14-25. The proof is 1 John 1:8, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." So what about 1 John3:8, where it says "the one who practices sin is of the devil;?" Unbelievers practice sin. Believers can fall into sin, but don't glory in their sinfulness, and therefore don't practice it.
 

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BORN AGAIN – OR “BORN FROM ABOVE”?

http://www.israelect...20Above%27~.pdf

Unless you are talking about kayaking or some other pastime...biblically one is born again from above by the will of the Father.

To the original question, we've been born again when we place our faith in Jesus Christ for our salvation and confess him Lord of our lives. What does born again imply? We have been created anew, a spiritual creation, born again by God's will, not the will of men (John 1:12-13). We've been born again into God's family, adopted by the Father. I always tend to think as simply as possible, since the Gospel can be taught to a child. We've been shown grace and mercy. Now about the issue such as the adulterous woman caught in the very act, Jesus shows compassion, and she believed on Jesus. She was born again. He told her not to sin again. Going to 1 John 2:1, "My little children, I am writing these things that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins".
Like most of us, if we were her, we would bring baggage along in the flesh to the newly created spiritual man. Jesus knows we will sin from giving into temptation because of this baggage, and Romans 7:14-25. The proof is 1 John 1:8, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." So what about 1 John3:8, where it says "the one who practices sin is of the devil;?" Unbelievers practice sin. Believers can fall into sin, but don't glory in their sinfulness, and therefore don't practice it.

Are we born again by our own choice or by being accepted into the family of God through HIS intervention?

"Born again" is wrong understanding. Born from ABOVE, or born anew, is a more proper understanding.

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Gal 4:26 But the Yarushalayim that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Messiah told Nicodemus, as a "teacher of Y'israel", that he SHOULD KNOW these things.

Jhn 3:10 Yashua answered him, "Are you the teacher of Yisra'el, and don't understand these things?


All Beleivers belonging to Body of Messiah, (see Hebrews 11) are born from above, starting with Abel/Havel in Genesis. This isnt a "new church" thing.

Terminology apart....they are biblically the same. One is born again after one dies to the old sin nature and is raised up in the presence and power of Christ to live as He lived and bear witness to the life that is from heaven.