The Born Again Prophecy from Jesus

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theefaith

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It is receiving the down payment of the Holy Spirit inside of you. Do you not have understanding of this yet? It’s okay if you don’t, no one will tear you down. If they did, there would instantly be probably at least 15 of us who have received the Spirit giving them a tongue lashing like they’d NEVER had.
It was a question Paul asked some believers. He said, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Here is the passage.


19 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

3 So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?”

“John’s baptism,” they replied.

4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them

So the believers answered that they received a water baptism. Paul knew that was not the same as the baptism with the Spirit. Paul knew by their answer that they had repented and been water baptized but not yet born again with the Spirit.

that was only temporary cos of the incomplete nature of John’s baptism which points to the sacrament of baptism by with we receive sanctifying grace, the fire of divine love, the forgiveness of sin, and God the holy trinity father, son, and the Holy Spirit as the initiation into the new covenant!
 

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Correct.

Now, what foreign language is this?...


2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries

If spirit speaks why are you mumbling trying to get it started?

Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

why are you saying Honda, Honda, Honda, Cadillac!
(Prosperity gospel)
 

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that was only temporary cos of the incomplete nature of John’s baptism which points to the sacrament of baptism by with we receive sanctifying grace, the fire of divine love, the forgiveness of sin, and God the holy trinity father, son, and the Holy Spirit as the initiation into the new covenant!

I wasn’t able to follow that. What is it that was only temporary?
 

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If spirit speaks why are you mumbling trying to get it started?

Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

why are you saying Honda, Honda, Honda, Cadillac!
(Prosperity gospel)
You dumped 1 Cor 14 for Romans 8.

You are oblivious to the things of the Spirit of God.

Must be a lonely place to be in your life.
 

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yes in a separate way

now we receive everything in the Christian sacrament of baptism and the Christian sacrament of confirmation!

That doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t explain me. I received the Holy Spirit one day while driving in my car. But I’ve never received a water baptism.
 

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And you are not a Christian!

Faith and baptism are required
Baptismal regeneration

A sacrament is an oath! A sacred promise from God! Ez 36:25-27

Jesus says: I remind you you’re still under oath!


A sacrament is an outward sign for all men including infants And a gift from God to help us see what he does inwardly and invisibly by his grace!

As grace Washes our souls in the merits of Jesus blood from original and personal sin, so the outward action of washing is visible!

without the outward action the inward action cannot take place!

Jn 3:5 Titus 3:5 water and washing
acts 22:16 wash away your sin!

Jn 3:5 Born again BY water and the spirit! Not by “faith alone”!

They did not go to Jerusalem and preach “accept Christ as you’re personal Lord and savior “

They went to the river (water) and they baptized! Jn 3:22

A covenant requires an outward sign of the inward action of grace!

Ez 36:25 I will sprinkle you with clean water and you shall be made white as snow.

Acts 22:16 washing away your sins.

Eph 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

1 pet 3:21 baptism saves you.

You cannot enter on you’re own or by faith alone!

2 pet 1: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


Baptism!

God breathed life into Adam, gen 2:7 and we received this life from our fathers!

Christ breathed on the apostles our spiritual fathers, we receive the new covenant life of God’s grace from them thru faith & baptism! Jn 20:21-23 Mk 16:16 acts 8:36-38 eph 2

Born again! Born from above!

'The Father has set his seal' on Christ (John 6:27) and also seals us in him (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:23, 4:30). Because this seal indicates the indelible effect of the anointing with the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of Baptism,

Baptism indeed is the seal of eternal life." 87 The faithful Christian who I has "kept the seal" until the end, remaining faithful to the demands of his Baptism, will be able to depart this life "marked with the sign of faith," 88 with his baptismal faith, in expectation of the blessed vision of God - the consummation of faith - and in the hope of resurrection.

St. Paul tells the faithful at Ephesus that they have been “sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.” This is in terms of an indelible character imprinted on the soul in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. It is not as if this invisible mark is simply decorative. Rather, through it, we are enabled to participate in Christ’s mission and in his offices of priest, prophet, and king. Eph 1:13

Sealed by God eph 1:13 sealed by God (ez 36:25-27) in the ark of salvation by baptism just as Noah was sealed by God in the ark of the flood gen 7:16

1 Pet 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us!
(Ark of Noah a type of the church, member of Christ and his church and salvation by baptism!)
(Outside the ark of Noah none were saved, outside the church (the ark of salvation) none are saved!)

Sealed in the ark, sealed in the church the ark of salvation by God thru baptism!



Christ instituted the holy church for the salvation of all men, (repent and believe the gospel, with the institution of the sacraments to convey grace to sanctify souls!


Effects of faith & baptism!

Ez 36:25-27 washed in baptism, with a new heart and the Spirit
Jn 3:5 born again in baptism
Mk 16:16 faith & baptist
Acts 2:38 repentance & baptism
Acts 8:36-38 faith & baptism
Acts 22:16 baptism washes away sin
Rom 6:3 died with Christ
Col 2:12 risen with Christ
1 cor 12:13 baptized into the church
Gal 3:27 by baptism put on Christ
2 Tim 1:10 brought to life
2 cor 5:17 new creation
Eph 1:13 sealed by the Holy Spirit
Eph 2:1&5 brought to life in baptism
Eph 4:5 one baptism
Eph 5:26 faith and baptism
Titus 3:5 baptismal regeneration
1 pet 1:2 washed in Christ’s blood
1 pet 2:9 and not the kingdom of light
1 pet 3:20-21 baptism saves us!

“Faith alone” accomplishes nothing!
1 cor 13:2 even all faith (alone) without charity avails NOTHING!!!

Faith and baptism!

Scripture says none of the things about “Faith alone”!

2 Peter 1:11
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The Christian sacrament of baptism is the Initiation into the new covenant and must be ministered to you by the apostles!




“Faith alone”

Questions

where does scripture says we have died with Christ by “faith alone”?

Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

where does scripture say we are members of Christ and his church by “faith alone”?

1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

where does scripture says we put on Christ by “faith alone”?

Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Where does scripture say our sins are washed away by “faith alone”?

Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

where does scripture say we are saved or justified by “faith alone”?

1 pet 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us!

The only reference in scripture to “faith alone” is James 2:24 NOT BY “FAITH ALONE”?

2 pet 1: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

How can you enter by your own if it must be ministered to you? Baptism is done unto you, “not do it yourself by faith alone”

Jn 3:5 born again by faith alone?

Where is “Accept Christ as your personal lord & savior” is found in scripture?

They did not go preaching this line but went immediately to the river and baptized Jn 3:22

Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Eph 4:5 one baptism

Why don’t it say one teeny tiny little act of “faith alone”???

When we first believed we are saved?

Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

How can salvation be nearer than when we first believed if you’re saved by believing?

1 pet 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Matt 24:13 endures to the end Shall be saved.

How can salvation happen when we first believed if it’s the end?

If salvation is by “faith alone” then faith would be the greatest!
1 cor 13:13 charity is the greatest!

Even all faith much less “faith alone” without charity avails nothing!
1 cor 13:2
 

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Davy, you used Strongs to debunk your KJV Bible.

Think about what you did.

I know, because I have an interlinear too, and I used to think the KJV was a mess because of Strongs.

Then, I realized Strongs was the fake news, not the KJV.

Nah, you're just pushing propaganda against the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. False ones have even tried to push the Strong's in editions WITHOUT THE HEBREW-GREEK LEXICONS in the back which the original Strong's has. Propagandists don't WANT people to see Dr. James Strong's definitions for manuscript words used for the KJV Bible.
 

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Do you think that 1 Cor 14:2 is speaking of known tongues or unknown tongues?

It should say this?...

2 For he that speaketh in A KNOWN tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Yes or no?

Ain't no such thang as an 'unknown' tongue. That word "unknown" is NOT in the Greek of 1 Corinthians 14. It was ADDED by the KJV translators.

And just so others know, ALL English Bible translations have ADDED words, to make the translation read according to the English language. The key is not to alter the meaning in the manuscripts they are translating from. And even the KJV translators were not perfect in that, because the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 is not in the Greek manuscripts. The actual Greek word there is pascha (Strong's NT:3957) which means passover. The reason is because by that time in Britain, Christians traditionally held Easter as the time of Christ's death and resurrection, as still is done today.

Likewise in Isaiah 14:12, the word "Lucifer" is not the actual Hebrew there. The KJV translators added it. But they did put a margin note in the side of their 1st edition 1611 KJV of 'O Day Starre' as an alternate reading. They obviously added "Lucifer" for clarity, to make sure we knew who God was talking about, otherwise one might get confused with the idea of the 'morning star' not being only about Jesus Christ, which is what later modern Bible translations do...

Isa 14:12
12 How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
YLT

Isa 14:12
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
ASV

Isa 14:12
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
ESV

Isa 14:12
12 "How you are fallen from heaven,
O shining star, son of the morning!
You have been thrown down to the earth,
you who destroyed the nations of the world.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

Isa 14:12
12 How you have fallen from heaven, you morning star, son of the dawn!
How you have been cut down to the ground, you conqueror of nations!
(from GOD'S WORD Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations Bible Society. All rights reserved.)

Isa 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!
(from The Lexham English Bible, Fourth Edition <NL><NL>Copyright © 2010, 2012 Logos Bible Software.)


Not one of those above Bible versions point out that it is the devil of whom God is speaking about there. But the KJV made it emphatic, so I see no problem with the KJV translators putting the word "Lucifer" in their English version to make that clear...

Isa 14:12
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

KJV
 

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Strong was determined to destroy the KJV.

He did it.

He was only an honorary linguist. He was not fluent in Greek or Hebrew.

He sparked this...

Differences between the Textus Receptus and the Nestle Aland/United Bible Society Text - Textus Receptus Bibles

Like I said, there are many propagandists against... Dr. James Strong's excellent work with his Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, and it has been a mainstay Bible study tool with the KJV Bible for over a century.
 

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Ain't no such thang as an 'unknown' tongue. That word "unknown" is NOT in the Greek of 1 Corinthians 14. It was ADDED by the KJV translators.

And just so others know, ALL English Bible translations have ADDED words, to make the translation read according to the English language. The key is not to alter the meaning in the manuscripts they are translating from. And even the KJV translators were not perfect in that, because the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 is not in the Greek manuscripts. The actual Greek word there is pascha (Strong's NT:3957) which means passover. The reason is because by that time in Britain, Christians traditionally held Easter as the time of Christ's death and resurrection, as still is done today.

Likewise in Isaiah 14:12, the word "Lucifer" is not the actual Hebrew there. The KJV translators added it. But they did put a margin note in the side of their 1st edition 1611 KJV of 'O Day Starre' as an alternate reading. They obviously added "Lucifer" for clarity, to make sure we knew who God was talking about, otherwise one might get confused with the idea of the 'morning star' not being only about Jesus Christ, which is what later modern Bible translations do...

Isa 14:12
12 How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
YLT

Isa 14:12
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
ASV

Isa 14:12
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
ESV

Isa 14:12
12 "How you are fallen from heaven,
O shining star, son of the morning!
You have been thrown down to the earth,
you who destroyed the nations of the world.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

Isa 14:12
12 How you have fallen from heaven, you morning star, son of the dawn!
How you have been cut down to the ground, you conqueror of nations!
(from GOD'S WORD Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations Bible Society. All rights reserved.)

Isa 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!
(from The Lexham English Bible, Fourth Edition <NL><NL>Copyright © 2010, 2012 Logos Bible Software.)


Not one of those above Bible versions point out that it is the devil of whom God is speaking about there. But the KJV made it emphatic, so I see no problem with the KJV translators putting the word "Lucifer" in their English version to make that clear...

Isa 14:12
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

KJV
Okay, this is what you think it says.


2 For he that speaketh in A KNOWN tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Teach it freely.
 

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Nah, you're just pushing propaganda against the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. False ones have even tried to push the Strong's in editions WITHOUT THE HEBREW-GREEK LEXICONS in the back which the original Strong's has. Propagandists don't WANT people to see Dr. James Strong's definitions for manuscript words used for the KJV Bible.
The only thing Strongs is good for is locating a verse.

The rest is mass redefinition.

It works like this....


Preacher. "The Bible says this, but Strongs says it can also mean this and this and this and...."


Thus, the Bible is debunked by James Strong.

50 ancient translators debunked by 1 honorary translator.

Thousands of closet translators are born.
 

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Like I said, there are many propagandists against... Dr. James Strong's excellent work with his Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, and it has been a mainstay Bible study tool with the KJV Bible for over a century.
Strong had a lone goal to destroy the KJV.

It makes anyone using it doubt the wording of the KJV translators and reach for new meanings.

It did that to me in the beginning.

Thank God I found out what was going on.
 

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The only thing Strongs is good for is locating a verse.

The rest is mass redefinition.

It works like this....


Preacher. "The Bible says this, but Strongs says it can also mean this and this and this and...."


Thus, the Bible is debunked by James Strong.

50 ancient translators debunked by 1 honorary translator.

Thousands of closet translators are born.

Just YOUR personal OPINION and that's all.

None of what you say can detract from over a century of pastors and Bible students usage of the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
 

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yes in a separate way

now we receive everything in the Christian sacrament of baptism and the Christian sacrament of confirmation!

This clearly doesn't agree with the Bible. It's just more of the teaching of your fallible priests. Sola scriptura.
 

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The only thing Strongs is good for is locating a verse.

The rest is mass redefinition.

It works like this....


Preacher. "The Bible says this, but Strongs says it can also mean this and this and this and...."


Thus, the Bible is debunked by James Strong.

50 ancient translators debunked by 1 honorary translator.

Thousands of closet translators are born.

What I have heard many, many times is "The Bible says this, but it can also mean this and this and this and...." because they are translating "on the fly" from the King James Englyshe. Modern translations are far better than the KJV because they are written to us in our language.

It's sad that you don't understand the principles of translation. I won't list those principles here, but "The Strong's Exhaustive Concordance" is the most complete, easy-to-use, and understandable concordance for studying the original languages of the Bible.