Who as a christian can tell me the difference in being saved and being born again in Christ?

Question

I am a saved christian. I believe I am okay, but there are some who say you have to be born again and I think it is the same. I am not ignorant of the scriptures, but if the Bible tells an exact difference I want to know where.

Answer 1

I can see how people could get confused. I am a christian I am saved and born again. OK let me put it into terms that might help you understand.When I think of the word saved I think about the horrible death Jesus endured for our sins. His blood saved us if we accept it. When we can confess that we are sinners and ask Jesus to be our Lord and Savior it's then when we have been born again. Many people believe Jesus died for them and their right but only a few follow through and confess there sins and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior! There are people who just try to make the word of God more confusing than it really is! When you asked Jesus to come in your life and save you. I believe at that moment you were born again!
Saved by Grace~Born Again
You were born of your mother and then you were re~born spiritually in Christ.

Answer 2

My understanding is that in some sense they are the same. But of course there are three kinds of salvation: there's one you have at the moment you believe in Christ ('I have been saved'); another you have continually as God renews your life on a day-to-day basis ('I am being saved'); and another you'll have on that Last Day ('I will be saved').

'Being born again' would then refer to the first of these three. I would also say that these three kinds of salvation sound like justification, sanctification and glorification. But the dividing line is in fact not so clear, because we are encouraged to think most about how God has already done these things for us, and even did so before we were born (see Ephesians 1).

In a word, the Bible is putting into human, and therefore time-bound language something that is actually outside the bounds of time, and the point of Ephesians is to help us get outside those bounds and think eternally about our salvation: 'I am saved'.

Answer 3

I have done 2 years at Bible college and I can tell you most definitely that you cannot be saved without being born again first. Being born again means that we have given over our sinful nature to Jesus. That is why when a person gets baptized it is significant that they go under water with their old sinful nature and being washed/cleansed of it they arise as a new born so to speak. Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Answer 4

Being Born Again is being reborn in the spirit, John 3:3. If your a Born Again Christian your saved. So, being saved is being a Born Again Christian. Hope I helped you.

Answer 5

Saved, born again, born of the spirit - these all reference the inward conviction of the acceptance of the Holy Spirits call upon your life to accept Jesus Christ as the only begotten son of God who paid the wages of your sins, death, being eternal separation from God in hell for all eternity, who rose from the grave and ascended into heaven and will come again for the saints.

Any other gospel is a false gospel and not that given by Christ to the apostles to teach to the church. Baptism is a symbol of total immersion to represent the death, burial and ressurection of the old nature of sin living to the new nature of Christ living and is often times used as a means of joining the fellowship of local believers, but has no bearing on salvation at all.

I hope this gives you the assurance you need, as we are to be fully persuaded and convinced of our salvation so that we are not swayed by doctrines that are not of the scripture. This is why we have the Holy Spirit - for comfort, for discernment, for revealing truth, and for intercession when our burdens are heavier than we know how to pray for. So, rely on what Christ has given you and you won't ever have to question again this very basic doctrine.

God blesses us for our faith and confidence in him and he will assuredly bless you for yours.

Answer 6

Being born again is confessing your sins and accepting Jesus Christ as your savor. And starting your life over as a "Child of God" (born again) Therefore, changing your ways of sin to a life of Christianity and testifying for God and Jesus.
Being saved, means you are under Jesus' blood that He shed for all of us while He was being whipped by the guards. ("By His strips, we are saved") (saved from hell fire.)
You have to be "born again" to be "saved". Two different things but they are in twined to each other. We all NEED both.

I hope this was an understandable interpretation.

Answer 7

Jesus talked to Nicodemus about what being "Born Again" is.

We aren't really "saved" until we've made it through the gate. We must "persevere til the end to reach salvation. There is no such thing as "Once Saved, Always Saved" we work at staying on track daily.

Answer 8

A person is born again when he receives the Holy Spirit which happens immediately after he repents of his sins and believes on the Lord Jesus, and thus, is "saved." Jesus referred to a physical and a spiritual birth which is what happens to a person who is saved.

Answer 9

Well, when Christians refer to being "born again" and being "saved", they/we are usually talking about the same thing. Jesus said that "you must be born again," he didn't actually used the term "saved."

John 3:1-20

1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.[a]"

4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"

5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You[c] must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

9"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.

10"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? 11I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.[d] 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.[e]

16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]

Answer 10

Yes you are correct. Water baptism is only symbolic. Being saved is the same as being born again.

God is offering us a gift, all we have to do is accept it.