I never ceases to amaze me the extent some people will go to deny the existence of God. Like if they did they would be struck by a lightning bolt or something.
If you look at the lineage from Abraham to Jesus in Mathew chapter 1 you will see the worst of the worst. Thieves, murderers, prostitutes, some of the worst rulers of mankind, drunkards, outcasts. You think of it, it's in there. The point is Jesus didn't come from some high ranking family, He came from people who are just like our society today. You don't have to be morally right to accept God in your life. In fact having high morals can be a stumbling block because people tend to thing that their good deeds alone can reconcile them to God.
God knows what you have done, he knows what's in your heart. He knows everything. God does not want to be your moral redeamer, he just wants you!
God tells us that he will take our sin(our past, things we have done, maybe ashamed of) and throw them into the depths of the sea, never to be seen again. Jesus lived the life we should have lived and died the death we deserve. If that's not a gift I don't know what is.
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It's got me thinking about the whole issue of being 'born again'. Theoretically, a gun controlling, pro-choice, gay, feminist, atheistic naturalistic euthanizing libertarian could attend a Billy Graham rally, feel the spirit at the altar call and get 'born again' and become a gun loving anti-abortion, homophobic, sexist, anti-euthanizing supernaturalistic theist authoritarian in an instant. Obviously, that does not happen.
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Why not? Sure it happens, acknowledging the existence of God doesn't instantly make you perfect.
That said I always thought of "Born Again Christians" as being Mormons. Or religious zealots.
Certainly there are thousands of people being baptized every day without labeling themselves Born Again.
Danny