Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekmdp!johnr From: johnr@tekmdp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Born again Message-ID: <2020@tekmdp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 17:13:30 EDT Article-I.D.: tekmdp.2020 Posted: Fri Jun 10 17:13:30 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jun-83 13:15:02 EDT Lines: 38 ********************************** How can one claim to be a Christian, and in the same sentance deny being born again, after all, Christ said " You must be born again ". Ken Cochran hou5d!kwmc ********************************** I did not see the original article the above quote is a reply to. I know not what others may think, but I can easily answer for myself. I am a Christian and I have NOT been born again. Christ said to Nicodemus: ...Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Jn 3:3 and ...Ye must be born again. Jn 3:7 Christ also said: That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Jn 3:6 and The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Jn 3:8 I am still flesh, not spirit. I am not invisible. I have been begotten of God, but I will not be born again until the resurrection. John Rutis