Way to go to heaven after death
2007-02-10 01:36:21 · 20 answers · asked by Zac 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How to be Born Again?
I imagine it will be painful to your mother as you are probably a bit larger than the first time.
2007-02-10 01:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Without a loving relationship being born again is not possible. God opened the way thru His Son Christ. We of our selves will never obtain the status of rebirth. It is not in us to even desire it.
God calls us, each one of us ot Him. If we refuse we turn our back on that need contact and are stuck until we accept His call. When we go to church we go becasue He invites us. When we say a prayer it is because He has invited us to commune with Him. If we don't grab these invitations as they come to us we could one day miss the boat.
We can repent of sin, ask and accept forgiveness and accept Baptism, but with all this we still need a close relationship with Christ.
2007-02-10 02:02:00 · answer #2 · answered by sandra_k19 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus in the bible talks about being born again to Nicodemus, one of the expert teachers back in that time. And even Nicodemus at first thought Jesus meant physically! But the fact is, Jesus means we need to be spiritually reborn; as it is, when we are born physically on earth, we are spiritually "dead". We are helpless people; afterall, what can a dead person do for themselves? We are dead because of our sin nature, which has separated us from God.
The good news is that Jesus offers a way for us to become "born again"; in other words, to be resurrected spiritually. And that is by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, and making him the commander of your life. He died for our sins because that is the penalty we deserved; someone without sin had to satisfy the penalty, or ALL of us would have to die. And now it is up to you to make the decision: Will you accept the gift of life Jesus is offering, or will you ignore it, as so many people today choose to do?
2007-02-10 01:46:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
“Born Again”
In a secret meeting with a prominent Pharisee, Jesus revealed more about this divine purpose. The Pharisee, Nicodemus, came to Jesus at night, and Jesus said to him: “Unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Nicodemus, who as a Pharisee must have studied the Hebrew Scriptures, knew something about the grand truth of the Kingdom of God. The book of Daniel prophesied that the Kingdom would be given to “someone like a son of man” and to “the people who are the holy ones of the Supreme One.” (Daniel 7:13, 14, 27) The Kingdom was to “crush and put an end” to all other kingdoms and to stand forever. (Daniel 2:44) Likely, Nicodemus thought that these prophecies would be fulfilled with regard to the Jewish nation; but Jesus said that to see the Kingdom, one had to be born again. Nicodemus did not understand, so Jesus went on to say: “Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”—John 3:5.
John the Baptizer had spoken of baptism with holy spirit. Now, Jesus adds that an individual must be born from holy spirit if he is to enter into the Kingdom of God. By this unique birth, imperfect men and women enter into a very special relationship with Jehovah God. They become his adopted children. We read: “As many as did receive [Jesus], to them he gave authority to become God’s children, because they were exercising faith in his name; and they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man’s will, but from God.”—John 1:12, 13; Romans 8:15.
2007-02-10 06:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by amorromantico02 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go into a King James version of the Bible knowing this:
To be converted, to be born again and to be baptised with the holy ghost (which is the spirit of Jesus the Christ) are all the same thing.
To believe that Jesus is the Christ and that God has raised Him from the dead is justification by faith. One may be saved for heaven, by the grace of God, at this point yet not born again. Then by following Jesus and reading, hearing and believing on His word one is sanctified and cleaned up by that word.
Many so-called great preachers of today do not preach or teach this; leaving many Christians without true power to walk in newness of life. Fortunately we have His spirit and the written word to lead us further.
When St. Peter got off the boat to follow Jesus he was not born again nor converted nor baptised with the holy ghost nor sanctified for the space of three years!!
During that time Peter did some preaching and healing and cast out devils -- but was not born again. What he had done was made a decision to follow Jesus and was at that time justified by faith. There were no born again or converted Christians until the day of Pentecost.
At the end of His ministry, Jesus told Peter that he was not yet converted and also told Peter and the others close to him that they had been sanctified by His word.
Once Peter had committed to Jesus, Jesus started to take care of Peter. Satan sought to have Peter after he joined to the Lord. Jesus Himself prayed against that. Peter was in His care but not yet converted.
If you believe that deciding to follow Jesus is equal to a born again conversion you will face many unneeded troubles in your attempt to be a Christian. Knowing that your decision and being born again are two different things; will answer many questions about your own actions, and those of others, which don't seem to add up or measure up. (I answer you from hard experience).
To be born again you need to accept the call of Christ for this day, be baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then be baptised with the holy spirit. These three things can take place within minutes of each other or be spaced by years (God forbid). Once you are justified by faith and have been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, God is committed by His own Word to see that you are born again at some point.
The only exception is if your heart cannot respond in faith; like that of Simon the sorcerer, who could not respond from the heart when the moment of truth was finally shown to him.
Finally being born again is not really a question of you or I making it into a heaven over there or out there somewhere. You see to be born again is to become part of the new creation, which God elected to start in the hearts of men, when He came to earth in the flesh 2,000 years ago.
From that point this universe, which many are still attempting to figure out, was scraped and a new creation was started. To be part of that right now is heaven.
2007-02-10 03:43:32 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acts 2:38-47 Repent & be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins(sins done in the body) It's the blood that cleanse the soul, & ye shall receive the gift of the holy Ghost. That Holy Ghost experince, is the New Birth, That is God's seal on us that he has accepted us into his kingdom, & we are seal Until how long, Ephesians 4:30 Until we backslide(NO, NO) Until the day of our redemption
2007-02-10 01:45:38 · answer #6 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well first thing you can not wait till after death you will have to do this wile still living. Give your heart to God. Repent your sins and except Jesus into your life. Then go and be baptize by water and the Spirit
2007-02-10 01:41:11 · answer #7 · answered by channiek 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You must sincerely be tired of yourself and want something better and lasting. The Bible says that the 'old man" must die to Christ and you will be a 'new creation' in Him. Baptism by water and receiving the God's Holy Spirt is your next step. This is the door to a cleaner more rewarding life here and in the hereafter.
2007-02-10 02:05:19 · answer #8 · answered by dlminc03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Bible it says if we confess our sins and ask Jesus to come into our hearts and save us, and we confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that he died on the cross and rose from the dead... Then we will be saved.... This is only the start we then have to live like we are saved and spread the word of Christ, as Christians we are to help others get saved and people who are unsaved will look to us Christians as an example of the Love of Christ so we need to stay in the Word (Bible) and let that be our guide as to how we are to act and to become more like Christ
2007-02-10 01:51:21 · answer #9 · answered by B-E-B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if the question is about the recreation of all beings after death then the answer is:
God who created the world and all beings from nothing,could easily create all beings again after they become ash!!
if the question is how to be accepted by GOD:
you should believe that there is only one god who was not born nor created ,he has no wife no sons no daughters ..he sent the prophets to guide people the perfect way of life and every prophet came and continued the massege that the prophets before him stated ,so who believes in ibraham should believe in moses , jesus also in mohammed peace be upon them all.because they all came from the same source.
2007-02-10 01:45:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nicodemus asked the same question..and Jesus said..he has to be born again by the spirit not by man...so you need to get saved keep the comandments and just follow the bible..church is a big part to..
2007-02-10 01:45:09 · answer #11 · answered by JesusChik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋