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Ritajanice

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JESUS is the living word . AND HE INSPIRED the written word
The Holy Spirit is Gods Living testimony?...the written word confirms this.

How would you know that Jesus is the Living word?...by whose testimony?

How do you know God, by whose Living testimony?
 
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We both know that you are unable to explain what Born Of God’s seed means?

You too don’t like certain parts of scripture, dismiss them and won’t explain or interpret what Born Of God’s seed means...it’s a simple question, with a very simple answer, that you should know if your spirit in Born Again.....which for some reason you can’t answer it.
Born of WHOSE SEED . GOD .
that seed dont follow any other religoin rita . it dont just lovey do and hug and stay an atheist
or muslim or hindu or even An unbelieving IN JESUS JEW .
GODS SEED FOLLOWS HIS SEED RITA . the seed that HE PLANTED that fell into the ground
and from whence the great tree shot up . THAT BE JESUS rita . all other religons , even unbelieving jews
serve satan . JESUS said that . YOU are of your father the devil . SO MUCH FOR INTERFAITH and its satantic false love .
 

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The Holy Spirit is Gods Living testimony?

How would you know that Jesus is the Living word?...by whose testimony?

How do you know God, by whose Living testimony?
AND WHO does the SPIRIT TESTIFY OF RITA . JESUS THE CHRIST .
ALL OTHER RELIGOINS are of satan . And that is a fact .
EVEN the jews who reject JESUS are of their father the devil . AGAIN that is a fact rita .
OR do you disagree .
 

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ONLY THE BORN AGAIN WHO BELEIVE IN JESUS THE CHRIST are ENLIGHTEND
That is not how we are Born Of The Spirit?

The word does not say only the Born Again who believe in Jesus The Christ are enlightened.

The word says we must be Born of water and the Spirit.

We must be Born Again to see the Kingdom Of God....there is no word of enlightenment.
 

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Born of WHOSE SEED . GOD .
that seed dont follow any other religoin rita . it dont just lovey do and hug and stay an atheist
or muslim or hindu or even An unbelieving IN JESUS JEW .
GODS SEED FOLLOWS HIS SEED RITA . the seed that HE PLANTED that fell into the ground
and from whence the great tree shot up . THAT BE JESUS rita . all other religons , even unbelieving jews
serve satan . JESUS said that . YOU are of your father the devil . SO MUCH FOR INTERFAITH and its satantic false love .
That’s not how we are Born Again, we are Born Again of imperishable/ incorruptible seed.

Whose seed is imperishable and incorruptible that our spirit has been Born Again of?

Your commentary is not biblical @amigo de christo .

Spirit gives birth to spirit @amigo de christo ...which means what?
 

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You have denied that God says that a Born Again does not sin because they have been Born Of God’s seed.

Plus you have yet to explain what it means?

If you can’t explain what Born Of God’s seed means ..by whose testimony, ? then you have no understanding of what it means. @amigo de christo ...you aren’t in a position to say that I sin, because you can’t explain what Born Of God’s seed means?

You have no understanding of who Gods Living testimony is?

Therefore I rebuke your teachings that I continue to sin.
Rita the rainbow crowd gonna love your last statement . I MEAN HEY if they holler JESUS
and still lie with same sex , GUESS THEY AINT SINNING according to YOU .
We ought NOT continue in sin . NOW the main SIN of all sin is UNBELIEF . that is a fact .
SO , GUESS INTERFAITH REALLY IS OF ANTI CHRIST and SATAN .
SIN is sin as unbelif is sin . ALL other religoins , the muslim , ,hindu , buddists , yes athiest is even a religion
of sorts . EVEN the unbelieving CHRIST rejecting jew is of satan .
OR again do you disagree . IF YOU DO bring some scrips to prove this wrong .
cause i got plenty to prove it right .
 

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That is not how we are Born Of The Spirit?

The word does not say only the Born Again who believe in Jesus The Christ are enlightened.

The word says we must be Born of water and the Spirit.

We must be Born Again to see the Kingdom Of God....there is no word of enlightenment.
Before we continue anything . I need to know whether or not you agree
with this statement . ALL OTHER RELIGOINS , to include the athiest and UNBELIVING Jews
ARE of satan . DO you agree or not .
 
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Rita the rainbow crowd gonna love your last statement . I MEAN HEY if they holler JESUS
and still lie with same sex , GUESS THEY AINT SINNING according to YOU .
We ought NOT continue in sin . NOW the main SIN of all sin is UNBELIEF . that is a fact .
SO , GUESS INTERFAITH REALLY IS OF ANTI CHRIST and SATAN .
SIN is sin as unbelif is sin . ALL other religoins , the muslim , ,hindu , buddists , yes athiest is even a religion
of sorts . EVEN the unbelieving CHRIST rejecting jew is of satan .
OR again do you disagree . IF YOU DO bring some scrips to prove this wrong .
cause i got plenty to prove it right .
I have given you the words of God, you have dismissed Gods word and won’t discuss them with me...

Now, are you going to continue trying to push your beliefs onto me..or are you going to agree to disagree?

Otherwise we are at risk of getting this thread closed...we are arguing, which is unedifying and unfruitful for the forum...we both need to move on and respect the beliefs of each other.
 

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We do not believe on Christ to get born again. We believe on Christ because we have been born again. Faith is not our contribution to the work of grace. Our faith is the fruit of grace already bestowed (Gal. 5:22; Eph. 2:8; Phil. 1:29; Col. 2:12).
Ephesians 2:8
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

Titus 2:11
"For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people"
 

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Rather odd how you view that sister .
the same JOHN said IF we sin we have an advocate . You dont even understand what he means
when he wrote what he did sister . You sat under men and we both know you did .
they twisted it sister .
@amigo de christo
Read your Bible @Ritajanice
One minute you’re saying you don’t need the Bible and it’s from 2,000 years ago. Next minute you are posting scriptures, yet you criticize others for posting scriptures. Then in other posts you say that someone hasn’t quoted any scriptures in their post, but you also don’t like it when people do post scriptures.

In Post 203 you told Amigo:
“you produced no scripture whatsoever.”

Quite a lot of interfaith people are like this. They’ll rebuke Christians for quoting parts of the Bible that they don’t like, or makes them feel uncomfortable, saying things like its 2,000 years old, like you said. Only then to post scriptures themselves, but only parts of the Bible that they like and suits them.

Open the Bible. Start with page 1 and read it right through to the end. Keep doing it. You have been exposed as confused and not knowing your Bible at all.

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15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
See this..? It's up to us who we obey. Sometimes we might do wrong by yielding to the old man. In such cases if we are aware of doing wrong we need to acknowledge it and repent. I don't know how a born again believer can grieve the Spirit by doing wrong without also feeling grieved with themself too, unless they have hardened their heart and their conscience is seared.....and you know what hardens the heart....? Sin. If anyone should have a tender conscience it is the blood bought child of God.

Scripture that says this please?
Are you not familiar with these scriptures?

1Jo 1:8-9

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.



Eph 4:24

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


Col 3:10

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him


Our spirit has been Born Of God’s seed...where does the Holy Spirit take up residence?

What has been birthed in us?

3. Through the work of the Holy Spirit man is given a new heart (nature) and made to walk according to the will of God. Man becomes a new creature in Jesus Christ.
Our new man has been birthed in us a new creature, and it is the new man that has been made to walk according to the will of God. But what of the old man? He has been crucified and no longer has dominion over us - however, he sure does still seem to sometimes rise up in a born again believer. This we know by observing others as well as experience in ourselves.....and there are countless examples in the bible too. It is often a battle to make our old man obey the truth, that he has been crucified and to reckon him dead. This is what fighting the good fight of faith is about. And it's the reason we need God's chastisements and thorns in the flesh, to help deal with our old man and flesh. Why would God lead us through these trials and tribs if we didn't need them?

All over the new testament scrips we are being instructed how to walk as well as exhorted and admonished not to sin. Why on earth would the writers have wasted so much time and effort doing that if it isn't possible for us to sin or go astray?

If I may venture to say sister, I perceive that you listen to what other people say a lot more than you read the scriptures. We need to first know the scriptures well in order to be able to test and discern what people say by the word of God, and not by what seemeth right to us.
 

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We grow in our new man?..the new man is the Spirit, we have a new heart/ spirit within .we grow in spirit, which takes years.

When we are regenerated, God's life and nature enter us, and we become a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). This is the beginning of the new man.


We grow in the new man, our spirit is being conformed into Jesus image, we should also bear the fruit of the Spirit....we grow in spiritual truth and understanding...God is a Living Spirit, we are partakers Of his divine nature?
Amen, our new man has been created perfect and holy...since He who created it is perfect and holy. So why do we need to grow and what does that mean? It's because we still have to contend with our our old man/flesh in putting him under our feet.
 

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Read your Bible @Ritajanice
One minute you’re saying you don’t need the Bible and it’s from 2,000 years ago.
I said no such thing, that I don’t need my Bible, I said what you posted wasn’t relevant to what I was discussing..don’t twist or put words into my mouth, thank you.
Next minute you are posting scriptures, yet you criticize others for posting scriptures.
I have done no such thing...I voiced that you need to know God in one’s heart, seek him out with your heart, for there is where you will find him.
Then in other posts you say that someone hasn’t quoted any scriptures in their post, but you also don’t like it when people do post scriptures.
You post scripture that was not relevant to what we were discussing at the time.
In Post 203 you told Amigo:
“you produced no scripture whatsoever.”

Quite a lot of interfaith people are like this. They’ll rebuke Christians for quoting parts of the Bible that they don’t like, or makes them feel uncomfortable, saying things like its 2,000 years old, like you said. Only then to post scriptures themselves, but only parts of the Bible that they like and suits them.

Open the Bible. Start with page 1 and read it right through to the end. Keep doing it. You have been exposed
You have also been exposed for having not an ounce of heart knowledge!..your confused thinking reading the Bible saves you, it doesn’t.
as confused and not knowing your Bible at all.
I suggest that you get more involved on the threads, because all you do is post scripture and memes...with never interacting with spiritual knowledge.....the Bible confirms that we know God in Spirit.

So instead of keep reading your Bible...I suggest that you seek God out more with your heart....
 

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See this..? It's up to us who we obey. Sometimes we might do wrong by yielding to the old man. In such cases if we are aware of doing wrong we need to acknowledge it and repent. I don't know how a born again believer can grieve the Spirit by doing wrong without also feeling grieved with themself too, unless they have hardened their heart and their conscience is seared.....and you know what hardens the heart....? Sin. If anyone should have a tender conscience it is the blood bought child of God.


Are you not familiar with these scriptures?

1Jo 1:8-9

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.



Eph 4:24

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


Col 3:10

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him



Our new man has been birthed in us a new creature, and it is the new man that has been made to walk according to the will of God. But what of the old man? He has been crucified and no longer has dominion over us - however, he sure does still seem to sometimes rise up in a born again believer. This we know by observing others as well as experience in ourselves.....and there are countless examples in the bible too. It is often a battle to make our old man obey the truth, that he has been crucified and to reckon him dead. This is what fighting the good fight of faith is about. And it's the reason we need God's chastisements and thorns in the flesh, to help deal with our old man and flesh. Why would God lead us through these trials and tribs if we didn't need them?

  • Rom. 8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”
  • I Cor. 2:10-14 “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
  • 1 Cor. 6:11 “And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
  • 1 Cor. 12:3 “Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.”
  • II Cor. 3:6 “… who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
  • II Cor. 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
  • II Cor. 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
  • I Pet. 1:2 “…elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.”
2. Sinners, through regeneration, are brought into God’s kingdom and made His children. The author of this new birth is the Holy Spirit. The instrumentwhich He uses is the preaching of the Word of God.

  • John 1:12-13 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
  • John 3:3-8 “Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
  • Titus 3:5-7 “…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
  • I Pet. 1:3, 23-25 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead… having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.”
  • I John 5:4 “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.”
3. Through the work of the Holy Spirit man is given a new heart (nature) and made to walk according to the will of God. Man becomes a new creature in Jesus Christ.

  • Deut. 30:6 “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.”
  • Jer. 31:33-34 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says the LORD, I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
  • Ezek. 36:26-27 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.”
  • Gal. 6:15 “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.”
  • Eph. 2:10, 18, 22 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. …in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.”
  • II Cor. 5:17-18 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.”
All over the new testament scrips we are being instructed how to walk as well as exhorted and admonished not to sin. Why on earth would the writers have wasted so much time and effort doing that if it isn't possible for us to sin or go astray?

If I may venture to say sister, I perceive that you listen to what other people say a lot more than you read the scriptures. We need to first know the scriptures well in order to be able to test and discern what people say by the word of God, and not by what seemeth right to us.
You once again have posted your own commentary, which does not line up with scripture..there is no point in discussing with you..as you have no spiritual life in your posts...and NO I have no intention of listening to a strangers voice..I suggest you do the same as the advice i gave to marvellous...seek God out with all of your heart for there is where you will find him...as of yet I don’t see the Spirit Alive in any of your posts.

Now, if you read what I have posted to @amigo de christo ..and come back to me with answers to those questions.we may then have a discussion....rather than you keep posting scripture that you understand...why not discuss the scriptures that I post?
unfortunately you are another one who only wants to post the scripture that you want to post and dismiss all scripture that I post and never want to discuss it.

Therefore I rebuke all of your post in Jesus Name. Amen!..scripture I don’t rebuke ..only what comes out of your mouth.

If you concentrated more on knowing God in your heart/ spirit, you would get a better understanding of scripture @Lizbeth ...the Spirit should be leading you through scripture..not yourself...and that’s all I see from you, you understand scripture from your own perspective....
 
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So why do we need to grow and what does that mean?
Whose Spirit have you been Born Again of..whose imperishable seed have you been Born Again?

We grow in spirit knowledge, because our spirit is Born Again?

How else are you conformed into the image of Jesus, without the Spirit?

Spirit gives birth to spirit..which means what?

How do you know God or Jesus by whose Living testimony?
 

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See this..? It's up to us who we obey.
We learn to obey because we are Born Again, the Spirit teaches us to obey.

How do you obey God..or better still tell me how you know God @Lizbeth ...how do you know that Jesus died and was resurrected?
Sometimes we might do wrong by yielding to the old man. In such cases if we are aware of doing wrong we need to acknowledge it and repent. I don't know how a born again believer can grieve the Spirit by doing wrong without also feeling grieved with themself too, unless they have hardened their heart and their conscience is seared.....and you know what hardens the heart....? Sin. If anyone should have a tender conscience it is the blood bought child of God.


Are you not familiar with these scriptures?

1Jo 1:8-9

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.



Eph 4:24

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


Col 3:10

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him



Our new man has been birthed in us a new creature, and it is the new man that has been made to walk according to the will of God. But what of the old man? He has been crucified and no longer has dominion over us - however, he sure does still seem to sometimes rise up in a born again believer. This we know by observing others as well as experience in ourselves.....and there are countless examples in the bible too. It is often a battle to make our old man obey the truth, that he has been crucified and to reckon him dead. This is what fighting the good fight of faith is about. And it's the reason we need God's chastisements and thorns in the flesh, to help deal with our old man and flesh. Why would God lead us through these trials and tribs if we didn't need them?

All over the new testament scrips we are being instructed how to walk as well as exhorted and admonished not to sin. Why on earth would the writers have wasted so much time and effort doing that if it isn't possible for us to sin or go astray?

If I may venture to say sister, I perceive that you listen to what other people say a lot more than you read the scriptures. We need to first know the scriptures well in order to be able to test and discern what people say by the word of God, and not by what seemeth right to us.
Are you familiar with these scriptures?


  • Rom. 8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”
  • I Cor. 2:10-14 “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
  • 1 Cor. 6:11 “And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
  • 1 Cor. 12:3 “Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.”
  • II Cor. 3:6 “… who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
  • II Cor. 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
  • II Cor. 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
  • I Pet. 1:2 “…elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.”
2. Sinners, through regeneration, are brought into God’s kingdom and made His children. The author of this new birth is the Holy Spirit. The instrumentwhich He uses is the preaching of the Word of God.

  • John 1:12-13 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
  • John 3:3-8 “Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
  • Titus 3:5-7 “…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
  • I Pet. 1:3, 23-25 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead… having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.”
  • I John 5:4 “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.”
3. Through the work of the Holy Spirit man is given a new heart (nature) and made to walk according to the will of God. Man becomes a new creature in Jesus Christ.

  • Deut. 30:6 “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.”
  • Jer. 31:33-34 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says the LORD, I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
  • Ezek. 36:26-27 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.”
  • Gal. 6:15 “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.”
  • Eph. 2:10, 18, 22 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. …in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.”
  • II Cor. 5:17-18 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.”
 

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Believing in Him is how we become born again.


For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Thats false, one must be saved /born again to believe in Jesus
 

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Believing in Him is how we become born again.


For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Thats false, one must be saved /born again to believe in Jesus
 
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