Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!jlp From: jlp@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Who is BORN AGAIN? - (nf) Message-ID: <1465@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-May-84 05:59:19 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1465 Posted: Sat May 26 05:59:19 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 07:33:35 EDT Lines: 20 #R:rochester:-707200:inmet:11600018:000:1072 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. The Organ Keyboard of Jerryl Payne {ihnp4,esquire,harpo}!inmet!jlp