Just Curious
2007-04-14 20:24:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics (including the Pope) are spiritually born again (and again and again) through:
+ Belief in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior
+ Living the Gospel to the best of our ability
+ Daily rededicating ourselves to Jesus Christ
+ Receiving new life in Baptism
+ The forgiveness of sins through the Sacrament of Reconciliation
+ The infusion of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands in Confirmation
+ Taking the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ into our bodies through the Eucharist (Holy Communion)
+ Even during the penitential season of Lent
These are a few ways that Catholics are spiritually born again. We usually just don't use those words.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-16 18:39:59 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be born again, means to have handed your life over to Jesus Christ, and to now live by every word that proceedeth out of the word of God. That means that you live by the word of God. Compare their lives to "what saith the scripture", and you shall see whether they are born again. I could give you my alarming discoveries, but God has given us reason that we may all use.
2007-04-17 09:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by michaelsseed14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said you MUST be born again to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
That makes mostly all Catholics, popes and priests alike somewhere other than heaven.
Here is a nice article about Pope John Paul II burning in Hell, sadly for G-d and the Pope.
2007-04-14 20:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
They are born again through their baptism just as every other member of the "true" church is. You asked for that one.
2007-04-14 20:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When a Catholic says that he has been "born again," he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism.
So YES.
Cheers :-)
2007-04-14 20:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by chekeir 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes they may be born again according how they re now. if now they r good people they maybe not born again. but if they re bad they could be born again and maybe the re born not in a human form
2007-04-14 20:29:31 · answer #6 · answered by Dbs61 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't really know. Good question. I have wondered that about the Catholic Church, I just don't know.
Jesus is Lord
2007-04-15 19:30:47 · answer #7 · answered by carpentershammerer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but see, you only get born once in a life time, nine months or so after your parents have sex and conceive you.
2007-04-14 20:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, you have this confused my child.. You are to ask me, if you are the one worthy of life. Perhaps if you bring wine with your plea of worth. I may in a drunken stupor, consider you worthy enough to not be a lion snack....
2007-04-14 20:31:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Who knows? I wouldn't automatically reason them out to be real Christians just because they were where they were.
2007-04-14 20:32:57 · answer #10 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋