Born Again - False View

  • Bible (Correct):  Being born again was spoken of by Jesus in John 3:3-10.  Literally, the Greek says “born from above” and it is the regeneration that occurs when a person becomes a Christian, is made a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17), is no longer dead in his sins (Eph. 2:1), and no longer spiritually blind (1 Cor. 2:14).
     
  • CS:  Being born again is a kind of spiritual transformation when a person is healed and/or delivered from an ailment or bad habit through the knowledge of Christian Science principles.
     
  • JW:  Only the 144,000 (anointed ones) are born again and will reign with Christ in heaven.
     
  • LDS: In Mormonism, being born again is not a change of state from unregenerate to regenerate.  It is a ceremony which is a necessary part of the LDS religious system by which a Mormon becomes a “true Christian.”
    • “Being born again, comes by the Spirit of God through ordinances” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.162). 
    • “No one can be born again without baptism…” (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966, p.101).
       
  • RC:  In Catholicism being born again is the transformation that occurs when a person is water baptized and all his sins are then removed and God’s grace is infused into the person.  He is then in a state of sanctifying grace until he commits sufficient sin to have fallen from his “baptismal grace” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 1446) and is no longer born again.

 

 

 

 
 
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