Does that mean we get to live like we were born???
2007-11-04 01:58:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
born again is like you have accped Jesus into your heart and you have strted your life over with Jesus!!!
2007-11-04 13:52:01 · answer #1 · answered by Blondest_Brunett 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being born again is believing in your heart that Jesus died for your sins. No way can a natural person believe that. It has to come from above. Something happens to confirm the scriptures in your heart.
2007-11-04 02:06:08 · answer #2 · answered by Neil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I may be out of turn here, but if you're asking the question from the perspective of wanting to know the real answer as opposed to the superstitious but comforting dogma of this or that sect, read on. If not, don't.
The term "born again" comes from an account of a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus given only in the Gospel According to John. The words which are translated into English as born "again" can also be translated as born "from above".
I am sure that other answerers will give you every possible dogmatic take on the term, but my personal, iconoclastic, (and in their eyes I'm sure, heretical) view is as follows:
The term "from above" refers to higher ideals than those grasping, materialistic and fearful world views. The term "born" refers to conception in the sense of coming into being.
We human beings are really more process than status. We are constantly becoming, and constantly becoming in terms of how we conceive of our selves, our hopes, fears and in accordance with our values and ideals. Therefore to be "born from above" is to behave in accordance to the highest values that you can imagine.
This interpretation admittedly flies in the face of the magical notion of being "washed in the blood" or cleansed by virtue of a blood sacrifice to a God-concept not unlike that of some megalomaniacal iron-age middle-eastern tyrant. It is an interpretation that relies on your developing in yourself, without the benefit of super-powers or imaginary friends, a love and respect for the marvel that is your own consciousness and being, and that is your loved ones, the community at large and very life itself! Do it. You can!
(elaboration available on request)
Good on ya!
2007-11-04 02:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by wordweevil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being "born again" refers to baptism. One key Scripture reference to being "born again" or "regenerated" is John 3:5, where Jesus says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
This verse is so important that those who say baptism is just a symbol must deny that Jesus here refers to baptism. "Born again" Christians claim the "water" is the preached word of God.
But the early Christians uniformly identified this verse with baptism. Water baptism is the way, they said, that we are born again and receive new life—a fact that is supported elsewhere in Scripture (Rom. 6:3–4; Col. 2:12–13; Titus 3:5).
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from the Catechism Of The Catholic Church:
CCC 1263 - By Baptism all sins are forgiven, original sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment for sin.66 In those who have been reborn nothing remains that would impede their entry into the Kingdom of God, neither Adam's sin, nor personal sin, nor the consequences of sin, the gravest of which is separation from God.
CCC 1265
Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature,"69 member of Christ and co-heir with him, and a temple of the Holy Spirit.
2007-11-04 02:00:08 · answer #4 · answered by Catholic Crusader 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Being born again happens when you are baptized into Christ.
The water symbolizes being washed clean of your sin by the blood of Jesus (that He shed when He died for our sins) and you are raised from the water being born into a new ( forgiven of your sin ) life to being that new life in Christ and being condiered dead to the old life of sin
2007-11-04 02:03:42 · answer #5 · answered by kenny p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put: Its like standing alone in the middle of the desert. No one around for hundreds of miles. You think you're alone. God taps you on the shoulder and says "Here I Am, your not alone". From then on your never the same.
2007-11-04 02:05:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
renewed in Christ,Ephesians 2:8-9.
2007-11-04 02:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by parkituse j 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it mean that we are new,our life is anew in Jesus Christ
2007-11-04 02:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Innoscent what the hell is a nappies?
2007-11-04 02:02:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't gibberish please and don't wear nappies
2007-11-04 02:03:22 · answer #10 · answered by Heterodox Idiosyncratic Algerian 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋