We know that Paul was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, when Jesus called him from heaven. But this obedience of Paul's followed his conversion. He was a man struck down by God.
He was blinded, until one was sent to heal him. He became a man who was "no longer [him] but Christ. Could he have been disobedient? Could Christ have been disobedient? It's the same question. We do not "water down" the gospel by tossing out obedience or action or accountability.
I believe that His judgments, his corrections and disciplines, come if we ignore all those imperatives. It happened to Israel. It happens to us. It is true that he Gospel provides man with the faith to obey the call. And one must be given ears to hear, as well as being transferred from the authority of the Darkness into the kingdom of the Son whose origin is His love, before he can even hear the call.
Once born of God, once a son, then are we required to obey. May He continue to remove the veil from the eyes of all of us, and progressively seeing Christ may we be transformed from glory to glory. Return To Jonathan Mitchell's Page. May 6, 7. Hi Andrew98 Being saved is to happen on the Day of the Lord. We talk about it in past tense because of our faith on the matter, but we are actually still to be saved from damnation to eternal life. Being born again refers to being born of the Holy Spirit.
That is, to be baptised in the Holy Spirit a separate event to water baptism in which the Spirit lives in you and empowers you with a gift s for His glory and the edification of others and support and guidance to follow His commandments. Agree x 1 List.
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The Catholic holds that there are three types of baptism by which one can be saved: sacramental baptism with water , baptism of desire explicit or implicit desire to be part of the Church founded by Jesus Christ , and baptism of blood martyrdom. Possibility 3: Jesus was baptized in order to ceremonially cleanse himself before being filled with the Holy Spirit.
He is The Creator Spirit, present before the creation of the universe and through his power everything was made in Jesus Christ, by God the Father. Christian hymns such as Veni Creator Spiritus reflect this belief. Feast of the Transfiguration, Christian commemoration of the occasion upon which Jesus Christ took three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up on a mountain, where Moses and Elijah appeared and Jesus was transfigured, his face and clothes becoming dazzlingly bright Mark —13; Matthew —13; Luke — Seeing the kingdom of God is dependant on being born again.
A bit later, Jesus makes the statement more firm when he said, " Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God " John Now we know what constitutes being born again: being born of water and the Spirit. We also know that you must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. This leads to a side question: What is the kingdom of God?
The writer of Hebrews tells Christians, " Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear " Hebrews Reading backwards, we find from the context that this kingdom is another name for the church.
This imagery of the church is one where Christ reigns as king and Christians live as citizens. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins " Colossians Just as Israel was God's people and to be a part of that nation one had to be physically born into it, so to is the church seen as God's people under the new covenant.
Like the Israelite, a Christian must be born a citizen, but instead of a physical birth, a Christian must be born spiritually. Peter tells us what supplies the power to transform men, allowing them to be born again. This is the same message Paul delivered. Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin " Romans Baptism then is the rite that symbolizes to Christians the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When we are baptized we join with Christ in his death, when we come up from the watery grave, we are resurrected to a new life -- in other words, we have been born again.
At the point of baptism, our old life of sin dies and a new man arises who serves God and not sin. Even in this verse, the imagery remains the same.
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