because that's what some people seem to believe.
2007-09-11 07:36:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
first, answerer, that belief is crazy. it doesn't make any sense. so, even though you bad-mouth others, you will stll go to heaven just because you named yourself "born-again"?
2007-09-11 07:45:47 · update #1
superfoot23, well, let's say that they are just reaping what they sow. look at the first answerer. am I being unreasonable for disliking the "born-again" if I have been expose for too long to people like the first answerer I have here?
2007-09-11 08:18:47 · update #2
Yeah he's wrong. If it's impossible to loose salvation then I'm going to heaven as a Pagan. I was saved at 15. *rolls eyes*
2007-09-11 07:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just by calling yourself "born again" or by just "calling on the name of Jesus" is not enough. The verse that contain the teachings of Jesus on being born again specifically mention that you must be baptized (of water). Baptism is essential to salvation.
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:3-5
You also must live a faithful life. You can still sin and lose your salvation after you are baptized. "Once saved, always saved" is not a concept taught in the Bible and has not support from the scriptures.
2007-09-11 14:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by TG 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, hfaith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
2007-09-11 15:46:36 · answer #3 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I was saved at the moment I believed, and it is impossible to lose salvation.
2007-09-11 14:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋