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You don't even know what the word means. It is not some religionized jargon kind of word. There is no distinction in the Bible between faith in God and believing in God. Belief, faith, in God is both the mental assent to the truth of God plus placing complete trust in God. One can believe...

The Bible doesn't say that you must be saved either. But any who understands what it means certainly should want to be saved. What in the world to you think it means to be a Christian but a faithful follower of Christ? The typical modern-day use and meaning of the the word Christian has no real...

You are both wrong. Faith is not a gift but it is a requirement to be born again. To be born again is to be saved. One cannot be, is not, born again and yet not saved. To be saved one must believe, have faith, in God. Rom 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed [had faith...

Of course a Christian is born again. A Christian is one who has been saved, one given the gift of eternal life with God in heaven. One cannot be saved and not be born again. Neither can one be born again and not be saved. To be born again is to be saved is to be a Christian.

That is true enough. One must believe in God. For some that is easy, particularly for those who are born and raised in a God fearing Christian home. But for others, it may take time to come to a belief in God; for some it takes years. John 3:8 isn't saying that you don't know when it...

The gift of Ephesians 2 is salvation - salvation by grace through faith -- PERIOD.

There is no "initial" born again experience. It is not something that God does over a period of time. It begins and ends in an instance. It is that instant in time when one goes from being a lost sinner to becoming a saved saint.

The truth is that Paul was still dead in his trespasses and sins three days after his encounter with Jesus. Obviously, he had not been born again until his sins were washed away, whether or not you want to believe that in baptism sins are washed away.

So you think that he was born again three days before his sins were washed away? How silly of you. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Nothing there about the sins of...

OK, I will try again. Go back and read what Barnes and Gill said about imperishable seed. This time try to grasp the truth of what they are saying.

Copy and paste - something you should give some thought to. Since more than likely most anything you could copy and pasted would be more accurate than anything you would dream up.

(ESV)1Pe 1:23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; (NASB)1Pe 1:23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. (KJV)1Pe...

Of course water baptism does not regenerate a person. But nowhere in all of scripture does it ever say that baptism is only a symbolic witness to another person. Christ does the saving when the believer is baptized in water. According to Acts 2:38 the repentant believer is forgiven his sins...

You are right, I can't help you. And I have some time back quit trying. But I do know what you are talking about. But you are so terribly wrong.

Paul describe his own washing of regeneration: Act 22:16 And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'

Oh good grief. I asked you that question because it was obvious then, and still is, that you haven't a clue about what it means to be born again and why one even needs to be born again. That was back when I first came aboard and thought that perhaps I could help you. But I have long since...

I did not make any such confession. I understand full well what born again means. That you got that from anything that I wrote is just one more demonstration that your reading comprehension is severely lacking.

I will let you respond, but I would warn you, it will do no good. She believes that, in addition to not sinning, she receives divine revelation direct from the Holy Spirit, so that whatever she thinks the meaning of any passage of scripture says, she must be right. She thinks that she and the...

The only real difference between Putin and Biden is the Constitution of the United States of America. And Biden and his administration along with some key democrat leaders in the congress and some states are doing everything they can to make that Constitution powerless.