If a law were passed tomorrow which made being born again against the law, how would you be found? Guilty or?

Question

Not Guilty? What would the requirements be of being found Guilty?

In Church yesterday the topic in Sunday School was being Born Again, and this senario was given. We wrote down a list of 4 or 5 things that would convict a person. Top of the list was Desire. A desire to be born again. A decision to do whatever was necessary for however long it took to be born again. We then included (I don't remember the order), baptism, repentance, a desire to not sin anymore (not the same as not sinning), and maybe another one or two. I would also include a burning need to share this "good news" with others.
What would you include on the Guilty list? What about on the Not Guilty list? And finally, do you think there would be some on a "watch list" because there wasn't enough evidence to convict them or find them not guilt?

Answer 1

I would be Guilty. I couldn't stop reading my bible, I wouldn't take my pictures down of God, I couldn't denounce my lord and savior, and I wouldn't care if I was killed for being born again or believing.

Answer 2

I think it's interesting that you put your belief in a negative sense.

You're not speaking of it as a positive, but as a negative. I wonder if
-- you are projecting what you sense the attitude is from society right now, -or-
--whether you feel a *need* to be persecuted, so that you can imitate biblical days.

If the later, do you realy think that that is healthy?

Answer 3

Your question is kind of silly, but I am going to give you a serious answer.
John 1: 12,13: "However, as many as did receive him, to them he gave authority to become God’s children, because they were exercising faith in his name; 13 and they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man’s will, but from God."

Notice that this verse says "they were born,not from...man's will, but from God."

Being born-again was not for every one...
Romans 8:16,17: "The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 If, then, we are children, we are also heirs: heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together."

These anointed Christians (born-again) are limited in number and serve a very crucial role...

Revelation 5: 9:  "And they sing a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered and with your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth.”

Jesus spoke to some of these anointed Christians of his day saying to them: "“Have no fear, little flock, because YOUR Father has approved of giving YOU the kingdom. " (Luke 12:32)

Here they are referred to as a "little flock", they are separate and serve a purpose as shown in Revelation.

Revelation 20:6: "6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years."

1 Corinthians 6:2a: "Or do YOU not know that the holy ones will judge the world?"

Is it possible for a person to have God’s spirit and yet not be “born again”?

Regarding John the baptizer, Jehovah’s angel said: “He will be filled with holy spirit right from his mother’s womb.” (Luke 1:15) And Jesus later said: “Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is [Why? Because John will not be in the heavens and so there was no need for him to be “born again”]. But from the days of John the Baptist until now [when Jesus stated this] the kingdom of the heavens is the goal toward which men press.”—Matt. 11:11, 12.

The spirit of Jehovah was “operative” upon David and “spoke” by him (1 Sam. 16:13; 2 Sam. 23:2), but nowhere does the Bible say that he was “born again.” There was no need for him to be “born again,” because, as Acts 2:34 says: “David did not ascend to the heavens.”

Answer 4

Guilty as charged

Answer 5

Reason 746 I don't take my children to Church.

Answer 6

Not guilty, thankfully.

Answer 7

I would be not only guilty but, public enemy #1. (hahaha)