{"id":715,"date":"2011-10-01T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2011-10-01T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:41:52","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-%e2%80%9csaved%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cborn-again%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=715","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be \u201csaved\u201d and \u201cborn again\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What does it mean to be \u201csaved\u201d and \u201cborn again\u201d?\u00a0 Are these things required or are they not required?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saved and born-again in biblical terms are actually the same thing.\u00a0 Yes it is necessary to be born-again; Joh.3:3, \u201c\u2026..Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d\u00a0 The way to be born-again is to repent; Mt. 4:17, \u201c\u2026..Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u201d\u00a0 Repent means <em>to think differently<\/em>.\u00a0 We have to stop living for the flesh and start living for God; Rom. 8:13, \u201c\u2026..if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What does it mean to be \u201csaved\u201d and \u201cborn again\u201d?\u00a0 Are these things required or are they not required? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saved and born-again in biblical terms are actually the same thing.\u00a0 Yes it is necessary to be born-again; Joh.3:3, \u201c\u2026..Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}