2007-09-01 17:29:57 · 21 answers · asked by engelfeurs 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some of them are.....I wish they would tell other Catholics.
"except a man is born again he shall not enter the kingdom of God". - Jesus
2007-09-01 17:34:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Catholics are Christians.
2007-09-02 00:35:22 · answer #2 · answered by Philbert 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics 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.
2007-09-04 00:39:30 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All you can do is pray for everyone you know to love Jesus and get into Heaven. I am a born again christian, but it is not about your religion. I believe that some in all christian religions are saved. I also believe that many in all faiths shall perish. I just pray we all love the Lord, try to listen to the Lord, and do our best. He judges the condition of the heart. But that is not an excuse for laziness....
2007-09-02 00:38:46 · answer #4 · answered by Crishelle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All Catholics believe that passage in the bible. It is a part of their religion. Just not the only part. We celebrate Pentecost, the Descent of the Holy Spirit on our Holy Mother and the 12 apostles in the upper room.
2007-09-02 00:38:02 · answer #5 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics and Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).
When a Catholic says that he has been "born again," he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism. Evangelical Protestants typically mean something quite different when they talk about being "born again."
For an Evangelical, becoming "born again" often happens like this: He goes to a crusade or a revival where a minister delivers a sermon telling him of his need to be "born again."
"If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and believe he died for your sins, you’ll be born again!" says the preacher. So the gentleman makes "a decision for Christ" and at the altar call goes forward to be led in "the sinner’s prayer" by the minister. Then the minister tells all who prayed the sinner’s prayer that they have been saved—"born again." But is the minister right? Not according to the Bible.
Often people miss the fact that baptism gives us new life/new birth because they have an impoverished view of the grace God gives us through baptism, which they think is a mere symbol. But Scripture is clear that baptism is much more than a mere symbol.
In Acts 2:38, Peter tells us, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." When Paul was converted, he was told, "And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name" (Acts 22:16).
Peter also said, "God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 3:20–21). Peter says that, as in the time of the flood, when eight people were "saved through water," so for Christians, "[b]aptism . . . now saves you." It does not do so by the water’s physical action, but through the power of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, through baptism’s spiritual effects and the appeal we make to God to have our consciences cleansed.
These verses showing the supernatural grace God bestows through baptism set the context for understanding the New Testament’s statements about receiving new life in the sacrament.
Thus, I consider myself ‘born again’ every time I receive the Holy Eucharist and confess my sins to a priest.
2007-09-02 02:14:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know many Catholics who are "born again" (as in "born again Christians").
2007-09-02 00:35:39 · answer #7 · answered by KAL 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are Born Again - in Water Baptism
Born Again in Water Baptism
John 1:32 - when Jesus was baptized, He was baptized in the water and the Spirit, which descended upon Him in the form of a dove. The Holy Spirit and water are required for baptism. Also, Jesus’ baptism was not the Christian baptism He later instituted. Jesus’ baptism was instead a royal anointing of the Son of David (Jesus) conferred by a Levite (John the Baptist) to reveal Christ to Israel, as it was foreshadowed in 1 Kings 1:39 when the Son of David (Solomon) was anointed by the Levitical priest Zadok. See John 1:31; cf. Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21.
John 3:3,5 - Jesus says, "Truly, truly, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." When Jesus said "water and the Spirit," He was referring to baptism (which requires the use of water, and the work of the Spirit).
John 3:22 - after teaching on baptism, John says Jesus and the disciples did what? They went into Judea where the disciples baptized. Jesus' teaching about being reborn by water and the Spirit is in the context of baptism.
John 4:1 - here is another reference to baptism which naturally flows from Jesus' baptismal teaching in John 3:3-5.
Acts 8:36 – the eunuch recognizes the necessity of water for his baptism. Water and baptism are never separated in the Scriptures.
Acts 10:47 - Peter says "can anyone forbid water for baptizing these people..?" The Bible always links water and baptism.
Acts 22:16 – Ananias tells Saul, “arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins.” The “washing away” refers to water baptism.
Titus 3:5-6 – Paul writes about the “washing of regeneration,” which is “poured out on us” in reference to water baptism. “Washing” (loutron) generally refers to a ritual washing with water.
Heb. 10:22 – the author is also writing about water baptism in this verse. “Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.” Our bodies are washed with pure water in water baptism.
2 Kings 5:14 - Naaman dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, and his flesh was restored like that of a child. This foreshadows the regenerative function of baptism, by water and the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 44:3 - the Lord pours out His water and His Spirit. Water and the Spirit are linked to baptism. The Bible never separates them.
Ezek. 36:25-27 - the Lord promises He will sprinkle us with water to cleanse us from sin and give us a new heart and spirit. Paul refers to this verse in Heb. 10:22. The teaching of Ezekiel foreshadows the salvific nature of Christian baptism instituted by Jesus and taught in John 3:5, Titus 3:5, 1 Peter 3:21 and Acts 22:16.
2007-09-03 09:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you're new to being religious. So here's some important advice:
Leave others to their own spiritual beliefs. Wishing somebody of a different faith would abandon theirs to follow yours is, in fact, a sin of bigotry and prejudice.
No matter what you may have been told, to try to convert others to your faith is one of the most disrespectful attitudes one can ever display.
2007-09-02 00:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I wish christians were born again. And I'm a christian saying it. Hype is crap.
2007-09-02 00:41:20 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋