Is there a difference between being saved and born again?

[d taylor]

Is being saved when you first put your faith in Jesus? Is born again if the Holy Spirit enters you and you feel different?
Should you feel different if you’ve been saved? And once you’re saved does it matter what you do afterwards? Some people say it doesn’t but some people say it does (faith without works is nothing)?

Also is it hard to be saved or born again? Jesus said “narrow is the door” but if anyone can believe in Jesus and then continue on their life like nothing happened then that isn’t very hard. But some people believe your works don’t count and it was just the initial faith that matters.

Salvation is not about feelings, and "narrow is the door" is hard because entering the door is only by and through The Messiah.

Many people try going through the door by the way of church, or some action they are doing, obedience, repentance, baptism, doing good works, inviting Jesus into their heart, etc.....

So if a person wants to enter door through The Messiah.
They must believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah from the prophecies of the Tanakh and trust in The Messiah for the free gift of The Messiah/God's Eternal Life.
If anyone looks to anything besides the Messiah, to go through the door, they will not enter the door.

 

[Radagast]

So God let’s people be born with no hope of going to heaven?

It is still the case that “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Romans 10:13, Joel 2:32).

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Is being saved when you first put your faith in Jesus? Is born again if the Holy Spirit enters you and you feel different?
Should you feel different if you’ve been saved? And once you’re saved does it matter what you do afterwards? Some people say it doesn’t but some people say it does (faith without works is nothing)?

Also is it hard to be saved or born again? Jesus said “narrow is the door” but if anyone can believe in Jesus and then continue on their life like nothing happened then that isn’t very hard. But some people believe your works don’t count and it was just the initial faith that matters.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth did His work on the cross in order for all to be saved from the second death. Those who believe in this truth will be filled with His Holy Spirit and thus are re-born into the Body of Christ. It is not a feeling. It is a Spiritual condition. The fruit of the Holy Spirit will then be apparent as He does the good work in you through sanctification.
Be blessed and stay healthy!

 

[pantingdeer]

It is still the case that “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Romans 10:13, Joel 2:32).

Is it just something we can’t understand because God is God and we are human?

 

[Consolation]

Many people misrepresent Calvin. Try reading him yourself and pray for God's guidance. He was a great teacher of God's Word.

 

[Radagast]

Many people misrepresent Calvin. Try reading him yourself and pray for God's guidance. He was a great teacher of God's Word.

Calvinism as we know it isn't really from Calvin; there are other writers that explain it better.

 

[eleos1954]

I don’t believe in election. I don’t believe God can let people be born for eternal damnation without any hope of being saved.

and you are correct!

 

[TLSITD]

No. They're two terms for the same thing. If you have been born again, you are saved; if you haven't been, you aren't.

The term "born-again Christian" is redundant: If you haven't been born again (spiritually regenerated by the Holy Spirit), you are not a Christian (Romans 8:9), regardless of whether you practice the Christian faith or call and consider yourself to be a Christian.

(Many people who call themselves Christians and believe themselves to be such will find out on the day of judgment that Jesus Christ never knew them.)