Why do people become born again Christians?

Answer 1

Often you will find people that become born again Christians are missing something in there life, Often friends that treat them equally. So when Christians come along and treat them like everyone else, they take that chance to have some nice friends that treat them well. It's much the same as how skinheads get other members, by befriending the weak. Also it doesn't help that the only thing that the bible actually tells Christians to do is to convert more people to Christianity (make more disciples).

Christian Answer:

The Bible explains, using the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis Chapters 2 and 3, that men and women were created to have a relationship with God. That relationship would only be workable when carried out according to the maker's instructions.

The story in Genesis, tells how the man and the woman ate the fruit from the forbidden tree at the suggestion of the serpent, illustrating mankind's inherent problem; "God's not going to tell me what to do! I'm going to live my life my way"

In the story Adam and Eve chose to follow the advice of the serpent and in so doing broke the first of the manufacturer's instructions: "live according to what I tell you and all will be well." In reality through obeying the serpent, rather than God, the man and woman actually did it the serpent's way, since he deceived them into their disobedience of God.

Down through history man has preferred to live the way he wants to, and so is disobedient to God's laws. Man's fundamental nature is at odds with God and nothing but a complete overhaul of this nature will cure the problem. Theologians refer to this as "the sin problem".

In a nutshell our sinful nature, which is at odds with God --who is sinless -- needs to be dealt with.

God's holiness (his moral purity) and justice demand that sin cannot be overlooked. If God overlooked sin, thereby condoning it, he would not be a very just God. The Bible says, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". The sin present in each one of our lives must, ultimately, be dealt with one way or the other.

The good news is that God in his mercy has made a way open whereby he will accept a substitute -- a scapegoat - as payment for your sin and mine. That scapegoat is Jesus Christ. Jesus came from Heaven to Earth out of love for humanity. Jesus himself was sinless and yet he chose death on a cross to pay the penalty for your sin and mine. Jesus rose from the dead and is now alive for evermore. Because Jesus defeated death, all who trust in the substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus can have their sins forgiven and be reconciled with God, their maker. Their old life -- their sin nature -- will be replaced by a new life energised by the Holy Spirit (God's spirit), hence they will be born anew, of the Spirit.

The question for each of us is this: "do I want God to intervene in my life and deal with my sin nature, or do I want to carry on with my life as it is, with me in ultimate charge?"

Anyone who is open to God's working in their life, trusting in what Jesus did for them will have their sins forgiven in this life and can look forward to eternal life in God's kingdom, both in this life and the next.

Those who reject Jesus and thus God's offer of a new start face a future of eternal separation from the love of God. This is not God's wish, but all have free will and God will never overrule our free will as individuals to act as we choose. Each of us chooses our ultimate destiny, either actively or by default.

God has appointed Jesus as the judge all of mankind at the end of human history.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM "BORN AGAIN"

This is found in The New Testament section of the Bible, John's Gospel Chapter 3. In discussion with Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council, Jesus says to him (verse 3):" I tell you the truth, no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." (alternative translation "born from above").

A "born again" Christian is therefore someone who trusts in the resurrected

Jesus for forgiveness of their personal sin and lives their life in obedience to the laws of God's kingdom. They have, in effect, been born again of the Holy Spirit. Ongoing submission to the Holy Spirit in their life enables Christians to live their lives as God wants.

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A person becomes a Born Again Christian when he/she has been Baptized in the Name Of the Father, and Of the Son, and Of the Holy Spirit.

Let us think about this for a while and take a step back. Humans have it within them to seek for answers beyond themselves. No matter what you believe, or are we all look for reason beyond ourselves. for example, "Spiritual" people believe in a deity, atheists believe in "Humanity" Evolutionists believe in nature. in fact they personify it by calling it "mother Nature" no matter how you look at it, we all look for things beyond ourselves, even aliens! So what makes us search, to look for something else out there? This search leads us to be born again! It simply means a new awakening, a new direction in life. It is a term taken from the bible where Jesus says to Nicodemus, "Unless a man be born again he will not see the Kingdom of G_D. I simply means to die to your old way of life and become a new person. Be it in belief, or be it in a new life style. There is so much spiritual mumbo jumbo thrown on it that we have lost our way and take it as something mystical and amazing. So to be born again, you turn aside from your life of sin and evil, and try to live it doing good and obeying G_Ds laws and reasons.

Answer 2

Some people become born again Christians due to their refound religious beliefs. It is a common activity for one to become born again, especially in regions of the United States of America.

Answer 3

Being closer to GOD gives us lives filled with GOD's LOVE! Caring and sharing with others! So much more meanings in and out of Life!

Atheists cannot feel anymore than each of their own LUST, for only each of their own wants!

Answer 4

Christians put away bad habits in their current life and live their life in harmony with God's will, thereby resulting in much more fulfillment and happiness.