Was Augustino Mandino the author a born again Christian?

Answer 1

I must answer honestly by saying that I have no personal knowledge of the salvation of Mr. Mandino. I know that its possible to seemed saved and a man of God and be a evil man. Folks can even profess to know God but, we can know their true heart for "in works they deny him...being disobedient" It then follows we can have a good idea of where a man stands with God based on his deeds, his works. When asked how we were to know a true prophet, God stated in a nut shell, "By his works". In my personal experience I have met folks that I didn't know for long, never had the "God" conversation with and yet knew by the way I was treated by them, what they talked about and what they did they were believers. I don't ever remember being wrong. To know how God works in ones life, to know how He works in the world, to be able to write about this in the way that Mr. Mandino has can only be done, in my opinion, by not only a saved believer, but by someone who has been blessed by God with a gift, a gift he had the love of others and the faith to use and do the job given him to do with his gift, something that so many believer don't do. No one can do the great works Mr. Mandino has done without the hand of God being on it. God can't, won't bless our life or works in it unless he is invited to do so, faith inspires us to invite and faith comes from being saved and knowing there is a invitation. I know in my heart there could be no way a unsaved man could have written what we have read in the books written by Mr Mandino.