They were baptizing people with the baptism of John. John's disciples baptized and Jesus disciples would baptize for the same reason.Yet the disciples of Yeshua were baptizing AT THE SAME TIME that John was John 3:22-23 and John 4:1
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They were baptizing people with the baptism of John. John's disciples baptized and Jesus disciples would baptize for the same reason.Yet the disciples of Yeshua were baptizing AT THE SAME TIME that John was John 3:22-23 and John 4:1
They were baptizing people with the baptism of John. John's disciples baptized and Jesus disciples would baptize for the same reason.
Using correct grammar Jesus said: “he has been speaking in earthly terms and not spiritual terms and they did not understand.
believed like all the Jews in the area that John the Baptist was from God and he had done nothing with that knowledge.
This is not the new birth. This is growth after the new birth. The new birth is the reception of the Holy Spirit into one's heart after one realizes one is a sinner in need of a Savior followed by believing that God became the man Jesus Christ to take our sins upon himself through death and resurrection.Hello there,
In response to your current dilemma a born again christian is someone who is willing to submit to the word of god as one of his true followers. In order to do so you should try to look for compromises that give you a reason to use God to help you accomplish your goals. i.e. reading your bible each night and saying prayers before going to bed, going to a church sermon every Sunday and agreeing to keep what your learned at home with you when you cannot attend church.
Indeed and mankind cannot 'bottle' born again and sell it in the pews. It's an action of God.This is not the new birth. This is growth after the new birth. The new birth is the reception of the Holy Spirit into one's heart after one realizes one is a sinner in need of a Savior followed by believing that God became the man Jesus Christ to take our sins upon himself through death and resurrection.
You take the evangelical view. But not all of us have this view. For some of us, being born again is a journey, a walk, something that happens over time.This is not the new birth. This is growth after the new birth. The new birth is the reception of the Holy Spirit into one's heart after one realizes one is a sinner in need of a Savior followed by believing that God became the man Jesus Christ to take our sins upon himself through death and resurrection.
My view might be Evangelical, but I speak from my own personal experience and 30 years of Bible study. Salvation is a new humanity. Christ is the first fruits of that new humanity, and the Holy Spirit, which gives the new birth, is the pledge that all who have received the Spirit will also be transformed into a sinless, glorified body just as Christ has now.You take the evangelical view. But not all of us have this view. For some of us, being born again is a journey, a walk, something that happens over time.
You take the evangelical view. But not all of us have this view. For some of us, being born again is a journey, a walk, something that happens over time.
It's about your opinion about what God's word says.This isn't about our opinions. This is universal truth. It's what Yah's Word says
And my view is Catholic, and I also speak from my own personal experience and around 40 plus years of Bible study.My view might be Evangelical, but I speak from my own personal experience and 30 years of Bible study.
It's about your opinion about what God's word says.
And what do you think that all means? You must have quoted it for a reason.Matthew 4 - 23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
Mark 16 - 15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
1st Corinthians 1 - 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Hebrews 4 - 12 For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Romans 8 - 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry,"Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God
Romans 10 - 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
I watched a Louis Theroux episode, where he went to go find out what born again Christians in America are like. The episode didn't fully explain what one is, and I was left a little confused. Before watching this I had never even heard of a born again Christian and I think it expected me to have already heard about them. To be honest I don't think it was serious and probably aimed to take the Mickey out out of how crazy they can come across.
I was left rather impressed by how these people came across though, they seemed like the most happy and peaceful people ever. I was amazed at how sincere and devoted to Jesus they where. I can't help but want to share the same passion they have for Jesus and life!
One thing that really sticks in my head was seeing people "accepting Jesus" and then start having some kind of mad fit after a priest touched their heads.
I was baptised and raised Christian until I was about 12, then I converted to wiccan until I was about 17 when I started following the bible again. Dose this make me a born again Christian or do I have to go through some kind of ritual? I don't go to church but I feel very spiritual and try to find the time each day to pray to god and thank him for everything he made.
If I am not a born again Christian, then how to I become one? Do I have to go to church or anything special?
That's Hebrews 6 that says that you can't come again to the baptism of repentance but the whole book includes much more, you are to move beyond and not fall back to followinh Judaism (or perhaps in your case wiccan) Peter fell back to Judaism and got a lecture from Paul. But if he had remained there for awhile he would not have to be baptised again. Turn away from idols and turn again to God (where He is, not where He was) Further in Hebrews 10 there are those who have trampled Jesus underfoot and have scorned the Holy Spirit who will find themselves falling into the hands of the living God, they will not have Christ as their mediator. hth"I was baptised and raised Christian until I was about 12, then I converted to wiccan until I was about 17 "
You have a serious problem that needs to be addressed first because God has said:
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
No one else is gone thru the rebirth that Nicodemus was told about? Only that one denomination ... interesting."Born-Again Christians" are "evangelicals" in the US. .