[man of Yosemite]

I recently talked with my cousins daughter who had just graduated high school and was thinking of going to a Catholic college to study Theology. I asked her if she was born again and she said she wasn't. It doesn't sit well with me that a girl raised up in a Catholic church, and educated in Catholic schools, doesn't understand one of the most important teachings of Christ. That is the same thing I experienced as a child. The church makes you so afraid of anybody who is not a Catholic that you think they are some kind of devil. The fact is many persons in other churches have a tremendous relationship with Jesus, knowing his word and will often better than those who have sit for a lifetime hearing priests who never say to them "you must be born again."

[Desdemona]

We say that one must have a conversion of the heart. There is no being born again. The heart must be open to accept Christ, His teachings and His Church - that means the whole kit-and-kaboodle. One must turn away from sin and accept Christ in life.

[Aquinasfan]

Most all my friends are just ladies I ride horses with, I find lately I don't do a whole lot of talking anymore when I am with them, unless it's about horses or the weather.

"...born again of water and the Spirit." This is a reference to Baptism and has been so taught by the Church since its beginning.

The common Evangelical and Fundamentalist interpretation is a historical novelty.