Born again to me means that moment that you, as a functioning adult, accept God as the all mighty rather than carrying on with the rote you ware handed growing up or otherwise a lack of training. It is the concept of understanding.
The focus on when a man is born again must be on The Lord, not the man, for a man has no more control over the work of the Holy Spirit than he does the wind. When one is born again he will believe, but The Lord had to work the miracle of the new birth in his heart first. A dead man cannot make himself come alive. Only God can do that. That’s what Christ Himself taught Nicodemus.
“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.”
-—John 3:7-8
I have some serious questions. I was born and raised Catholic, but last year had a born again moment/experience. I am no longer Catholic and consider myself “born again” except for the fact that I have never been baptized as an adult. In the last few months the idea of wanting to be baptized has been really gnawing at my spirit. I am ready to to it. My question is, who performs my adult baptism? Can anyone do it, and where must it be...lake, swimming pool? This is really important to me now. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
“Born again to me means that moment that you, as a functioning adult, accept God as the all mighty rather than carrying on with the rote you ware handed growing up or otherwise a lack of training. It is the concept of understanding.”
And where does it say you have to be a “functioning adult” with “understanding?” I missed that bit in the bible. [Mainly because IT’S NOT THERE!] Consider that with “your way” - retarded people are just out of luck. Consider that Jesus said of little children “suffer the little children come unto me.” And consider in NT times “whole households” [which CERTAINLY would have included infants and the very young, were baptized. Baptism is the NEW way one is united in a covenant relationship to God, it is available to all mankind and not just the Jewish people.