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NASB | Acts 8:22 "Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 8:22 "So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, this thought of your heart may be forgiven you. |
Bible Question:
Everybody in the Church a belong to claims to be 'born again'. My understanding of the term "born again' is that Yes, we all have to be born again before entering the presence of God. That will happen at the return of Christ ‘at an instance we will all be changed’. 1 Cor 15 50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." My conversion to faith in Christ was not instantaneous like for example Paul’s. For me and I believe for many others it is a constant process of growing in Christ. At His return we all will have to be changed or reborn – born again. “we will all be changed-- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” When Jesus spoke to Nicodemus in John 3, He (I believe) spoke not of a change of attitude or believes but a rebirth, something that cannot be overturned. This cannot be said about my fellow Christians. Sadly some will not always walk in the way of the Lord but will on occasions reverse to sin. How many times do we have to die and been born again ? |
Bible Answer: According to Jn.3 the new birth is a one time event if it is done correctly and for the right reason. Dying to ourselves is a daily event, it is a process in which we continue to put to death the things of the flesh. Gal 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Col 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. Col 3:6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, Col 3:7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. Col 3:8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Col 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, Col 3:10 and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him-- God Bless |