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To: P-Marlowe

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


98 posted on 03/02/2007 10:41:02 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest; P-Marlowe

"validly baptized"

And the next question would be "what do you mean by 'validly baptized'"?


100 posted on 03/02/2007 10:45:16 AM PST by blue-duncan
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In that I'd suspect that my interlocutor had a misunderstanding of the Gospel...

Then why are you applying for a job with his ministry? Are you there to do the work of the minstry or to convert the ministers?

If one can't answer yes to the question of whether or not you are a "Born Again Christian" or if one has to dance around the question, then I'd have to conclude that they are not.

... Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.

102 posted on 03/02/2007 11:13:03 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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