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To: pgyanke
QUOTE: "How does one become born again?"

My honest prayer is that you are genuinely seeking the answer to that question!!!

Jesus told Niccodemus in John 3:3 "...you must be born again". He went on the explain what I quoted above in John 3:14-16
" 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Titus 3:5 elaborates he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

John 1:12-13 further explains 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

93 posted on 07/10/2014 10:15:09 PM PDT by jimmyray
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To: jimmyray
The problem with your citations is that none of them actually explain the "how" of becoming born again. The discussion with Nicodemus comes the closest when Jesus says we are to be born of "water and spirit". I really need to go to bed... I offer this previous discussion for more on the subject. We tend to plow the same ground over and over around here...
106 posted on 07/10/2014 10:34:47 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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