That’s the difference between experience and book learnin son. He didn’t write down the secrete recipe for “born again”, and yet he still said it exists. So I don’t know what to tell you other than you’ll figure it out later, rather than sooner.
On the contrary......
Romans 10:9-13 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
*Experience* is no valid way of determining anything, especially when it's trying to ascertain the existence of somewhere nobody has ever been, like *purgatory*.
Purgatory cannot be *figured out*. If it exists, it would have to be divinely revealed, and it wasn't. So there's simply no basis for claiming its existence.
Well, SON there is no secret to it. It is proclaimed openly by His representative named Paul of Tarsus, and the Four Gospel accounts by Matthew Mark Luke and John. It is no secret that Believe on Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Even Jesus stated it openly in several places recorded by the Gospel accounts. Believe on Jesus Christ. When the Pharisees demanded to know what they must do, Jesus replied very forthrightly with : John 6:29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
When Nicodemus, a member of the Sanhedrin, came to Jesus by night to ask about Messiah, Jesus told him: John 3:3Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God." ... 14 "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life."
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, SON.