If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Those are His words, not mine. They are from Matthew 10:13-15. You seem to want to disregard them. And you show your arrogance once again in presuming I am not 'born again' and that your faith and believe is stronger than mine. I suggest you read what Jesus has to say concerning the foreman getting workers during different parts of the day, the throwing of seeds into different soil, and the prodigal son. In a nutshell, we all come to Christ and God in our own time. When we do, it does not matter at what time, we all are treated as equal believers. The seed grows differently in different soils. And if it takes and then washes away, the Father will take you back if you make the step towards him.
I believe in Jesus. I believe in God. You make the assumption I do not and need to be born again. That is your arrogance, which is also a sin. I read from both the New and Old Testaments. The Old Testaments - especially in Proverbs and Wisdom - has awesome advice concerning arrogance, the arrogant, and fools. If you are not Catholic, I suggest you pick up a Catholic Bible and read Wisdom.
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Since you aren't representing my views correctly, let me just say that I do not (and did not) presume that you do not believe in God. Of course, it takes more than belief. The devil believes in Jesus but he's still doomed to hell.
It's not about what church you attend, or how much money you give, or how hard you work. It's about having a right relationship with Christ. That's the determining factor.
As for whether you're born again, that's something only you and the Lord know for sure. It's hard for me to believe that someone who is truly born again would react as harshly as you have to someone quoting God's word.
As for being Catholic, I was born and raised Catholic. I spent twelve years in Catholic schools, with religion classes every day. After I had spent 25 years in the Catholic church, God got ahold of me and convinced me of my need to be born again. I left the Catholic church because I just couldn't reconcile the many contradictions between what the Catholic church teaches and what God's word teaches.