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Subject: Re: Who is BORN AGAIN? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 26-May-84 05:59:19 EDT
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inmet!jlp    May 25 15:59:00 1984

The methodist notion of the phrase "Born Again" is the doctrinal understanding
of the need for salvation through spiritual regeneration. "Born Again" is not
constrained to any particular denomination. Denominational differences seem
to magnify particular phrases with respect to the salvation experience. Thus,
one local assembly will say "you must be born again", while another will say
"you must be saved", while yet another will say " you must be baptized". The
essence of each is the fundamental understanding of the salvation experience.
One who is born again is one who has recognized that God sent not his son
into the world to condemn the world, but to save it. One who is born again is
one who confesses Christ as a personal savior, as well as Lord of their life.
One who is born again is one who, out of that sense of confession, and in a
demonstration of obedience, submits themself to water baptism - an outward
symbol of the inward change, as well as the symbolic burial of the dead sinner.

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