Author	Thread: According to scripture
Admin	According to scripture Posted : 5 Feb, 2011 06:50 PM How is anyone born again? Let's bring forth answers from the word of God!! Post Reply
View Profile History	According to scripture Posted : 5 Feb, 2011 11:18 PM John 3 explains it clear, Jesus spoke of the necessity and nature of regeneration or the new birth, and at once directed Nicodemus to the source of holiness of the heart. Birth is the beginning of life; to be born again, is to begin to live anew. By our first birth we were corrupt, shapen in sin; therefore we must be made new creatures. This new birth is from heaven, ch. 1:13, and its tendency is to heaven. It is a great change made in the heart of a sinner, by the power of the Holy Spirit. It means that something is done in us, and for us, which we cannot do for ourselves. The regenerating work of the Holy Spirit is compared to water. It is also probable that Christ had reference to the ordinance of baptism. Not that all those, and those only, that are baptized, are saved; but without that new birth which is wrought by the Spirit, and signified by baptism, none shall be subjects of the kingdom of heaven. Post Reply