So if, in the course of an interview for a position with a Christian ministry, you were asked the question: "Are you a Born-Again Christian?", your answer would be "NO"????
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Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
"...let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." (James 5:12 KJV)
I see. Protestants are supposed to figure out what catholics mean when we ask about born again, saved, etc., but catholics in interviews aren't expected to do the same.
I'd just forgotten the rules. Sorry.
/sarcasm
Dear P-Marlowe,
"So if, in the course of an interview for a position with a Christian ministry, you were asked the question: 'Are you a Born-Again Christian?', your answer would be 'NO'????"
In that I'd suspect that my interlocutor had a misunderstanding of the Gospel, I don't think that I'd answer either "yes" or "no," as to answer either way is to accept as valid and true that which is false. And that would be a lie.
I'd likely answer:
"Everyone who was validly baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is born from above - or 'born again,' as you put. Everyone who was validly baptized is a Christian, unless they've explicitly renounced the faith.
"I was validly baptized when I was four weeks old. Thus, yes, I'm born from above, by water and the Holy Spirit."
sitetest
That's correct. It would be "No". I am not "born again". I am a baptized Catholic.