Are you Born Again?

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Are you Born Again?

Post by Denise » Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:11 am

How to answer that question
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
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Post by KarlB » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:13 pm

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated through the agency of another’s will when that infant is brought to Baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn…’Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.’ The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was in one Adam.”
I think Augustine had it nailed. But i get the feeling you'd just get a blank stare if you responded to an Evangelical's question of 'being reborn' with the quote.
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Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again? Job10:9
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