Born again Christian?

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Permalink Reply by Bible-Talk on September 14, 2011 at 2:45pm

Thanks LT.... just as a matter of interest, are all those names and the "many other names" found in the Word of God?

In Christ,

Desmond

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on September 14, 2011 at 3:02pm

Desmond,

 

Here is a list, all from the ESV.

 

Act_5:14  And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

Act_10:45  And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.

Act_15:5  But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."

Act_19:18  Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

1Co_14:22  Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

1Th_1:7  so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

1Th_2:10  You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.

 

Act_6:1  Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

Act_6:2  And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.

Act_6:7  And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

Act_9:1  But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Act_9:19  and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.

Act_9:25  but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Act_9:26  And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.

Act_9:38  Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, "Please come to us without delay."

Act_11:26  and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

Act_11:29  So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

Act_13:52  And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Act_14:20  But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

Act_14:21  When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

Act_14:22  strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Act_14:28  And they remained no little time with the disciples.

Act_15:10  Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Act_18:23  After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Act_18:27  And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,

Act_19:1  And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.

Act_19:9  But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

Act_19:30  But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.

Act_20:1  After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.

Act_20:30  and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Act_21:4  And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.

Act_21:16  And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.

 

Act_24:5  For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

 

Act_24:14  But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

 

Rom_8:16  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Rom_8:21  that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Rom_9:8  This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

Php_2:15  that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

1Jn_3:1  See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1Jn_3:10  By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

1Jn_5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

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Permalink Reply by Bible-Talk on September 14, 2011 at 3:21pm

Thanks LT, I really do appreciate your input and effort - I struggle with the term "born again Christian" because I cannot find it in anywhere in Scripture. It just sounds tautological to me anyway.

In Him,

Desmond

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Permalink Reply by David Samuel Milumba on September 14, 2011 at 1:05am

Born again brother to me simply means to be born not of the fresh but of the spirit of God. When we are born again we die to the fresh, our sinful bodies with its evil desires we become a new creation ready to serve and obey our Lnew master who is Christ Jesus and not our fresh.

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Permalink Reply by Bible-Talk on September 14, 2011 at 3:09pm

Thank you David. I believe in being born again absolutely, and not just born of the Spirit but born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5). It is just about the term "born again Christian" which sounds tautological to me.

 

In Christ,

Desmond

 

 

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Permalink Reply by LucyP on September 14, 2011 at 3:23pm

hey Desmond, thank you, for teaching me new word, tautological! Hope that comes up in my mastermind general knowledge hehe.

 

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Permalink Reply by Bible-Talk on September 14, 2011 at 3:55pm

Lucy, if it does come up ..... please check the spelling first!!!

Found anything interesting on Jerusalem yet?

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Permalink Reply by LucyP on September 14, 2011 at 4:11pm

Well, I just copied your spelling.

I have watched a couple of programmes on the issues on RevelationTV. Still a lot to learn.

Came across this, :

Reminded me of this discussion LOL.

Seriously, whilst the name might mean different things to different people, I don't feel in my heart Jesus will mind. I think about.... is it Paul, who tells the people not to call themselves after a teacher but after Christ. I recall reading something like that. To me Christians who do that deliberately disobey scripture.

 

God Bless

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Permalink Reply by a servant (Chris) on September 14, 2011 at 3:45pm

Hey Desmond

1 Pet 1:23  You have been born again, not from a seed that can be destroyed, but through God's everlasting word that can't be destroyed. That's why [Scripture says],  I think reason "born again" is used so people can understand what has happened.   John 1:13 tells us we are born of God.  James 1:18 tells us He chose to give us birth... 1 Jn 2:29 ...but born of God. The Word uses that term so we know from whom we are born.  We can have confidence in our blood line.  So we are born again not of perishable, but of imperishable. Praise God.

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