Does becoming 'born again' stop people thinking?

Question

does it make them more conceited in any way?
Are they still capable of original thoughts afterwards?
Do they become less tolerant people because of their conversion?

Answer 1

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1. makes them desire to be more humble
2. even more so. "The Lord is the beginning of knowledge."
3. we become more loving, because we know Jesus loved us when we were enemies of God.

Becoming born again BEGINS people thinking in a whole new way. Try it and see for yourself. John 3:16.

Answer 2

Being born again means simply that you become a new regenerated person. The old nature dies and the new one is born. You shouldn't be more conceited you should be more humble. Your thoughts have changed in a way that you see things in a different light. You become less tolerant of things that are disgusting, rude or hateful but you are more tolerant of people in that you show, kindness, gentleness and humility.

Answer 3

It's none of the above. When you are born-again, you literally become a new creature in Christ. You don't stop thinking, you become more Christlike, and you don't stop thinking. If anything, you think more. You think more of others than you do yourself. You think of how to please God. You become more thoughtful in all that you do and say. God still gives us our free-will to think with. But if are sincere with our walk with God, all of our thoughts are to please him and to do his will.

I know with myself, I have become more tolerant, especially here on YA. This has been eye-opening to all the different beliefs and non-beliefs.

Answer 4

If a person is truly born again, how could you say that it makes us more conceited? To become born again we have to humble ourselves before God, confess and repent of our sin, and realize that without Jesus we are lost forever. Am I capable of thought after being born again? Loving Jesus and living for Him, does not mean that I have left my mind at the door. About being less tolerant. I could ask you the same thing. You seem to intolerant of us.

Answer 5

No. Becoming Born Again, means the person has been Baptized in the Name Of the Father, and Of the Son, and Of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

Born Again

Definition: Being born again involves being baptized in water (“born from water”) and begotten by God’s spirit (“born from . . . spirit”), thus becoming a son of God with the prospect of sharing in the Kingdom of God. (John 3:3-5) Jesus had this experience, as do the 144,000 who are heirs with him of the heavenly Kingdom.

Why is it necessary for any Christians to be “born again”?

God has purposed to associate a limited number of faithful humans with Jesus Christ in the heavenly Kingdom

Luke 12:32: “Have no fear, little flock, because your Father has approved of giving you the kingdom.”

Rev. 14:1-3: “I saw, and, look! the Lamb [Jesus Christ] standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand . . . who have been bought from the earth.” (See pages 166, 167, under the heading “Heaven.”)

Humans cannot go to heaven with bodies of flesh and blood

1 Cor. 15:50: “This I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.”

John 3:6: “What has been born from the flesh is flesh, and what has been born from the spirit is spirit.”

Only persons who have been “born again,” thus becoming God’s sons, can share in the heavenly Kingdom

John 1:12, 13: “As many as did receive him [Jesus Christ], to them he gave authority to become God’s children, because they were exercising faith in his name; and they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man’s will, but from God.” (“As many as did receive him” does not mean all humans who have put faith in Christ. Notice who is being referred to, as indicated by verse 11 [“his own people,” the Jews]. The same privilege has been extended to others of mankind, but only to a “little flock.”)

Rom. 8:16, 17: “The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children. If, then, we are children, we are also heirs: heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together.”

1 Pet. 1:3, 4: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance. It is reserved in the heavens for you.”

What will they do in heaven?

Rev. 20:6: “They will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.”

1 Cor. 6:2: “Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world?”

Can a person who is not “born again” be saved?

Rev. 7:9, 10, 17: “After these things [after the apostle John heard the number of those who would be “born again,” those who would make up spiritual Israel and would be with Christ in heaven; compare Romans 2:28, 29 and Galatians 3:26-29] I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: ‘Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.’ . . . ‘The Lamb [Jesus Christ], who is in the midst of the throne, will shepherd them, and will guide them to fountains of waters of life.’”

After listing many pre-Christian persons of faith, Hebrews 11:39, 40 says: “All these, although they had witness borne to them through their faith, did not get the fulfillment of the promise, as God foresaw something better for us, in order that they might not be made perfect apart from us.” (Who are here meant by “us”? Hebrews 3:1 shows that they are “partakers of the heavenly calling.” The pre-Christian persons who had faith, then, must have a hope for perfect life somewhere other than in heaven.)

Ps. 37:29: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”

Rev. 21:3, 4: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Is it possible for a person to have God’s spirit and yet not be “born again”?

Regarding John the baptizer, Jehovah’s angel said: “He will be filled with holy spirit right from his mother’s womb.” (Luke 1:15) And Jesus later said: “Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is [Why? Because John will not be in the heavens and so there was no need for him to be “born again”]. But from the days of John the Baptist until now [when Jesus stated this] the kingdom of the heavens is the goal toward which men press.”—Matt. 11:11, 12.

The spirit of Jehovah was “operative”

Answer 7

If you think the bible is enough of God's word, you're right; it's enough to send you to hell. Search the book of mormon, too.

Answer 8

No.
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Born Again!

Answer 9

I am Born Again, and I think not and I think your wrong. so there is nothing wrong with my thinking.

Answer 10

No, Born again in other words is being brainwash, free will take away and becoming annoying.

Answer 11

There is only one logical way to find out.....