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To: MHGinTN
You misunderstood: Are you saying that you personally can tell who is "Born from above" and who isn't? Does this also include the ability to determine who is saved and who isn't as well?
105 posted on 06/29/2015 6:43:06 PM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: verga
As I wrote precisely, I have not been given that gift, but I know that I have been born from above. If you're not going to read what I write in response, where does that put us?

Being born from above and saved are the same phenomenon. When James wrote4 his Epistle he addressed discerning whether someone has saving faith by the behavior patterns they exhibit. There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that allows spiritual discern of the state of someone else. I don't have that gift, so I look at what James spoke of, the behavior patterns.

That said, when one is born from above that person knows it. It is what brings such personal joy, knowing that God has placed the earnest of their inheritance in them. God's Life really does come into the spirit of the born from above.

One personal phenomenon for the born from above is the amazing humility and worship that burbles up from the soul's depth when God's Spirit reveals some truth in the Scriptures to you. It resonates with your soul. It really can burst a dam of tears when the phenomenon occurs. I experienced that with studying the Feasts/God's Appointed Times of Israel.

Another interesting phenomenon is the spiritual lift a born from above gets when they are in the presence of someone close to God. ...

101 posted on 06/29/2015 5:56:25 PM PDT by MHGinTN

107 posted on 06/29/2015 6:53:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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