You offer 5 scriptures proving me wrong, no doubt. My problem is this: none of them say -- "you must be born again in order to be saved." Such implies that I must do something other than accept the gift already given!! "Acceptance" needs to be discussed, as well, but let's just deal with one matter at a time. Hopefully, this will keep us from getting too confused.
JD
They and the other evangelists, never used these very words - you must be born again in order to be saved.What?Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit...1 PETER 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.1 JN 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.1 JN 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.1 JN 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.JN 1:12-13 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
