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Evangelical Christian term

Built-in once again, or to experience the new nascence, is a phrase, especially in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one'south concrete nativity, beingness "born again" is distinctly and separately caused by baptism in the Holy Spirit, it is not caused by baptism in h2o. It is a core doctrine of the denominations of the Methodist, Quaker, Baptist, and Pentecostal Churches along with all other evangelical Christian denominations. All of these Churches strongly believe Jesus' words in the Gospels: "You must be born again earlier y'all can see, or enter, the Kingdom of Heaven." Their doctrines too mandate that to exist both "born again" and "saved", one must have a personal and intimate human relationship with Jesus Christ.[1] [ii] [3] [4] [five] [half-dozen]

In gimmicky Christian usage and apart from evangelicalism, the term is singled-out from like terms which are sometimes used in Christianity in reference to a person who is existence or becoming a Christian. This usage of the term is normally linked to baptism with water and the related doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Individuals who profess to be "born again" (pregnant in the "Holy Spirit") often country that they have a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ".[7] [five] [6]

In addition to using this phrase with those who do not profess to be Christians, some Evangelical Christians use the phrase and deliver those who vest to other Christian denominations or groups. This practice is based on the belief that non-Evangelical Christians, even those Christians who are professed Christians, are not "born once more" and do not take a "personal relationship with Jesus." They therefore believe that they should deliver to not-Evangelical Christians in the same way that they would deliver to people who do not profess the Christian faith.

The phrase "born again" is also used as an adjective to describe individual members of the movement who espouse this belief, and it is also used equally an adjective to draw the motility itself ("born-over again Christian" and the "born-over again movement").

Origin [edit]

Jesus and Nicodemus painting by Alexander Bida, 1874

The term is derived from an event in the Gospel of John in which the words of Jesus were not understood by a Jewish pharisee, Nicodemus.

Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, no one tin can see the kingdom of God unless they are born once more." "How can someone be born when they are quondam?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely they cannot enter a 2d time into their mother'southward womb to exist born!" Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell y'all, no ane can enter the kingdom of God unless they are built-in of water and the Spirit."

—Gospel of John, John chapter 3, verses 3–5, NIV[8]

The Gospel of John was written in Koine Greek, and the original text is ambiguous which results in a double entendre that Nicodemus misunderstands. The discussion translated equally again is ἄνωθεν (ánōtʰen), which could mean either "again", or "from above".[ix] The double entendre is a effigy of speech that the gospel writer uses to create cliffhanger or misunderstanding in the hearer; the misunderstanding is then antiseptic past either Jesus or the narrator. Nicodemus takes only the literal meaning from Jesus's statement, while Jesus clarifies that he means more than of a spiritual rebirth from above. English translations accept to pick one sense of the phrase or another; the NIV, King James Version, and Revised Version apply "built-in again", while the New Revised Standard Version[x] and the New English Translation[11] adopt the "born from to a higher place" translation.[12] Almost versions will note the culling sense of the phrase anōthen in a footnote.

Edwyn Hoskyns argues that "built-in from above" is to be preferred as the central meaning and he drew attention to phrases such as "nascency of the Spirit",[13] "nascence from God",[14] just maintains that this necessarily carries with information technology an accent upon the newness of the life every bit given by God himself.[15]

The final use of the phrase occurs in the Commencement Epistle of Peter, rendered in the King James Version as:

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] beloved one another with a pure heart fervently: / Being built-in once more, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the discussion of God, which liveth and abideth for e'er.

—1 Peter 1:22-23[sixteen]

Here, the Greek word translated as "born over again" is ἀναγεγεννημένοι ( anagegennēménoi ).[17]

Interpretations [edit]

The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation is interpreted as beingness rooted in "the seed of Abraham"; that is, concrete lineage from Abraham. Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this doctrine was in mistake—that every person must have 2 births—natural birth of the concrete torso and another of the water and the spirit.[18] This discourse with Nicodemus established the Christian belief that all man beings—whether Jew or Gentile—must be "born again" of the spiritual seed of Christ. The Apostle Peter further reinforced this understanding in 1 Peter one:23.[19] [17] The Catholic Encyclopedia states that "[a] controversy existed in the primitive church over the estimation of the expression the seed of Abraham. It is [the Apostle Paul'southward] didactics in one instance that all who are Christ's past faith are Abraham'due south seed, and heirs co-ordinate to promise. He is concerned, however, with the fact that the promise is not being fulfilled to the seed of Abraham (referring to the Jews)."[twenty]

Charles Hodge writes that "The subjective change wrought in the soul by the grace of God, is variously designated in Scripture" with terms such as new birth, resurrection, new life, new cosmos, renewing of the listen, dying to sin and living to righteousness, and translation from darkness to lite.[21]

Jesus used the "nascence" analogy in tracing spiritual newness of life to a divine offset. Gimmicky Christian theologians have provided explanations for "born from above" being a more than accurate translation of the original Greek word transliterated anōthen. [22] Theologian Frank Stagg cites two reasons why the newer translation is pregnant:

  1. The emphasis "from above" (implying "from Heaven") calls attention to the source of the "newness of life". Stagg writes that the give-and-take "again" does not include the source of the new kind of beginning;
  2. More than personal improvement is needed. "a new destiny requires a new origin, and the new origin must be from God."[23]

An early example of the term in its more modern use appears in the sermons of John Wesley. In the sermon entitled A New Nascency he writes, "none can be holy unless he be born again", and "except he exist born again, none can be happy even in this earth. For ... a human being should not be happy who is not holy." Also, "I say, [a human] may be born again and then get an heir of conservancy." Wesley also states infants who are baptized are born once again, but for adults it is different:

our church supposes, that all who are baptized in their infancy, are at the same time built-in again. ... But ... information technology is sure all of riper years, who are baptized, are not at the same fourth dimension born again.[24]

A Unitarian work called The Gospel Anchor noted in the 1830s that the phrase was not mentioned past the other Evangelists, nor by the Apostles except Peter. "It was not regarded past any of the Evangelists just John of sufficient importance to tape." It adds that without John, "we should hardly have known that information technology was necessary for 1 to be born once again." This suggests that "the text and context was meant to apply to Nicodemus particularly, and non to the world."[25]

Historicity [edit]

Scholars of historical Jesus, that is, attempting to ascertain how closely the stories of Jesus lucifer the historical events they are based on, more often than not treat Jesus'south chat with Nicodemus in John 3 with skepticism. It details what is presumably a individual conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, with none of the disciples seemingly attending, making it unclear how a record of this conversation was acquired. In addition, the conversation is recorded in no other ancient Christian source other than John and works based on John.[26] Co-ordinate to Bart Ehrman, the larger upshot is that the same trouble English language translations of the Bible take with the Greek ἄνωθεν (anōthen) is a problem in the Aramaic language as well: in that location is no single word in Aramaic that means both "once again" and "from higher up", all the same the conversation rests on Nicodemus making this misunderstanding.[27] Every bit the chat was between two Jews in Jerusalem, where Aramaic was the native language, there is no reason to think that they'd have spoken in Greek.[26] This implies that even if based on a real conversation, the author of John heavily modified it to include Greek wordplay and idiom.[26]

Denominational positions [edit]

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: "The GSS ... has asked a born-again question on three occasions ... 'Would you lot say you have been 'built-in once more' or have had a 'born-again' experience?" The Handbook says that "Evangelical, black, and Latino Protestants tend to reply similarly, with nearly two-thirds of each group answering in the affirmative. In contrast, only almost one 3rd of mainline Protestants and one sixth of Catholics (Anglo and Latino) merits a built-in-again experience." However, the handbook suggests that "born-again questions are poor measures fifty-fifty for capturing evangelical respondents. ... information technology is likely that people who report a built-in-again feel as well claim information technology as an identity."[28]

Catholicism [edit]

Historically, the archetype text from John 3 was consistently interpreted by the early church fathers equally a reference to baptism.[29] Modern Cosmic interpreters have noted that the phrase 'built-in from in a higher place' or 'born again'[30] is clarified as 'being built-in of h2o and Spirit'.[31]

Catholic commentator John F. McHugh notes, "Rebirth, and the commencement of this new life, are said to come up about ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος, of h2o and spirit. This phrase (without the article) refers to a rebirth which the early Church regarded every bit taking place through baptism."[32]

The Catechism of the Cosmic Church building (CCC) notes that the essential elements of Christian initiation are: "proclamation of the Discussion, acceptance of the Gospel entailing conversion, profession of faith, Baptism itself, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and admission to Eucharistic communion."[33] Baptism gives the person the grace of forgiveness for all prior sins; it makes the newly baptized person a new creature and an adopted son of God;[34] it incorporates them into the Body of Christ[35] and creates a sacramental bond of unity leaving an enduring mark on our souls.[36] "Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, the person baptized is configured to Christ. Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual marking (grapheme) of his belonging to Christ. No sin can erase this marker, even if sin prevents Baptism from bearing the fruits of salvation. Given once for all, Baptism cannot exist repeated."[37] The Holy Spirit is involved with each aspect of the move of grace. "The outset work of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conversion. ... Moved by grace, homo turns toward God and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high."[38]

The Catholic Church too teaches that under special circumstances the demand for h2o baptism tin be superseded by the Holy Spirit in a 'baptism of desire', such as when catechumens dice or are martyred prior to receiving baptism.[39]

Pope John Paul Ii wrote in Catechesi Tradendae about "the problem of children baptized in infancy [who] come up for catechesis in the parish without receiving any other initiation into the faith and however without any explicit personal zipper to Jesus Christ.".[40] He noted that "being a Christian means saying 'yes' to Jesus Christ, simply let usa think that this 'yep' has two levels: It consists of surrendering to the give-and-take of God and relying on it, but it as well ways, at a later on stage, endeavoring to know ameliorate—and improve the profound meaning of this discussion."[41]

The modern expression beingness "born again" is really virtually the concept of "conversion".

The National Directory of Catechesis (published by the United states of america Briefing of Catholic Bishops, USCCB) defines conversion as, "the credence of a personal relationship with Christ, a sincere adherence to him, and a willingness to conform 1's life to his."[42] To put it more simply "Conversion to Christ involves making a genuine commitment to him and a personal conclusion to follow him as his disciple."[42]

Echoing the writings of Pope John Paul II, the National Directory of Catechesis describes a new intervention required by our modern earth called the "New Evangelization". The New Evangelization is directed to the Church herself, to the baptized who were never effectively evangelized before, to those who have never made a personal commitment to Christ and the Gospel, to those formed by the values of the secular culture, to those who have lost a sense of faith, and to those who are alienated.[43]

Declan O'Sullivan, co-founder of the Catholic Men's Fellowship and knight of the Sovereign Military Club of Malta, wrote that the "New Evangelization emphasizes the personal encounter with Jesus Christ as a pre-condition for spreading the gospel. The born-again experience is non just an emotional, mystical high; the really of import matter is what happened in the catechumen'south life after the moment or menses of radical change."[44]

Lutheranism [edit]

The Lutheran Church building holds that "nosotros are cleansed of our sins and born again and renewed in Holy Baptism past the Holy Ghost. Merely she as well teaches that whoever is baptized must, through daily contrition and repentance, drown The Old Adam so that daily a new man come forth and arise who walks before God in righteousness and purity forever. She teaches that whoever lives in sins after his baptism has over again lost the grace of baptism."[45]

Moravianism [edit]

With regard to the New Nascence, the Moravian Church holds that a personal conversion to Christianity is a blithesome experience, in which the individual "accepts Christ every bit Lord" later on which organized religion "daily grows within the person."[46] For Moravians, "Christ lived as a man because he wanted to provide a blueprint for future generations" and "a converted person could try to alive in his image and daily become more like Jesus."[46] As such, "eye religion" characterizes Moravian Christianity.[46] The Moravian Church has historically emphasized evangelism, especially missionary work, to spread the faith.[47]

Anglicanism [edit]

The phrase born again is mentioned in the 39 Articles of the Anglican Church building in article Fifteen, entitled "Of Christ alone without Sin". In part, it reads: "sin, as S. John saith, was not in Him. But all we the residual, although baptized and born again in Christ, nevertheless offend in many things: and if we say we take no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is non in u.s.."[48]

Although the phrase "baptized and born over again in Christ" occurs in Article Xv, the reference is clearly to the scripture passage in John three:3.[49]

Reformed [edit]

In Reformed theology, Holy Baptism is the sign and the seal of 1's regeneration, which is of condolement to the believer.[50] The time of 1'southward regeneration, nevertheless, is a mystery to oneself according to the Canons of Dort.[50]

Co-ordinate to the Reformed churches being built-in again refers to "the inward working of the Spirit which induces the sinner to respond to the effectual telephone call". According to the Westminster Shorter Canon, Q 88, "the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to usa the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, specially the give-and-take, sacraments, and prayer; all of which are made effectual to the elect for salvation."[51] Effectual calling is "the piece of work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing usa of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel."[52] [53]

In Reformed theology, "regeneration precedes faith."[54] Samuel Storms writes that, "Calvinists insist that the sole cause of regeneration or beingness born once more is the volition of God. God starting time sovereignly and efficaciously regenerates, and only in issue of that practise we deed. Therefore, the private is passive in regeneration, neither preparing himself nor making himself receptive to what God will do. Regeneration is a change wrought in united states past God, non an autonomous deed performed past us for ourselves."[55]

Quakerism [edit]

The Central Yearly Meeting of Friends, a Holiness Quaker denomination, teaches that regeneration is the "divine piece of work of initial salvation (Tit. iii:5), or conversion, which involves the accompanying works of justification (Rom. five:eighteen) and adoption (Rom. 8:15, 16)."[3] In regeneration, which occurs in the New Birth], there is a "transformation in the eye of the laic wherein he finds himself a new cosmos in Christ (Ii Cor. five:17; Col. one:27)."[three]

Following the New Birth, George Pull a fast one on taught the possibility of "holiness of eye and life through the instantaneous baptism with the Holy Spirit subsequent to the new birth" (cf. Christian perfection).[56]

Methodism [edit]

In Methodism, the "new nascence is necessary for salvation because it marks the motion toward holiness. That comes with faith."[ane] John Wesley, held that the New Birth "is that bang-up change which God works in the soul when he brings it into life, when he raises information technology from the death of sin to the life of righteousness."[58] [i] In the life of a Christian, the new nascency is considered the kickoff work of grace.[59] In keeping with Wesleyan-Arminian covenant theology, the Articles of Religion, in Article XVII—Of Baptism, state that baptism is a "sign of regeneration or the new birth."[sixty] The Methodist Visitor in describing this doctrine, admonishes individuals: "'Ye must be born over again.' Yield to God that He may perform this work in and for you. Acknowledge Him to your heart. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and chiliad shalt be saved.'"[61] [62] Methodist theology teaches that the New Nascence contains two phases that occur together, justification and regeneration:[63]

Though these two phases of the new birth occur simultaneously, they are, in fact, two separate and distinct acts. Justification is that gracious and judicial act of God whereby a soul is granted complete absolution from all guilt and a full release from the penalty of sin (Romans 3:23-25). This human activity of divine grace is wrought by religion in the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). Regeneration is the impartation of divine life which is manifested in that radical change in the moral character of man, from the dearest and life of sin to the love of God and the life of righteousness (2 Corinthians v:17; ane Peter 1:23). ―Principles of Faith, Emmanuel Association of Churches[63]

Baptists [edit]

Baptists teach that a "person is born again when he/she repents of his/her sins and asks Jesus to forgive him/her and trust Jesus to serve him/her."[64] Those who take been born once more, according to Baptist teaching, know that they are "a child of God because the Holy Spirit witnesses to them that they are" (cf. assurance).[64]

Pentecostalism [edit]

Pentecost past Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860.

Holiness Pentecostals historically teach the new nascency (get-go piece of work of grace), entire sanctification (second work of grace) and baptism with the Holy Spirit, as evidenced by glossolalia, as the 3rd work of grace.[65] [66] The New Birth, according to Pentecostal teaching, imparts "spiritual life".[4]

Jehovah'south Witnesses [edit]

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that individuals do not have the power to choose to be built-in once again, but that God calls and selects his followers "from to a higher place".[67] Merely those belonging to the "144,000" are considered to be born once more.[68] [69]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-twenty-four hour period Saints [edit]

The Book of Mormon emphasizes the demand for everyone to be reborn of God.[seventy]

Disagreements between denominations [edit]

The term "born again" is used past several Christian denominations, but there are disagreements on what the term means, and whether members of other denominations are justified in claiming to exist born-again Christians.

Catholic Answers says:

Catholics should inquire [Evangelical] Protestants, "Are you born again—the way the Bible understands that concept?" If the Evangelical has not been properly water baptized, he has not been built-in again "the Bible fashion," regardless of what he may think.[71]

On the other paw, an Evangelical site argues:

Another of many examples is the Catholic who claims he as well is "born again." ... Even so, what the committed Catholic means is that he received his spiritual birth when he was baptized—either every bit an infant or when every bit an adult he converted to Catholicism. That's not what Jesus meant when He told Nicodemus he "must be born again."[72] The deliberate adoption of biblical terms which have unlike meanings for Catholics has become an effective tool in Rome's ecumenical agenda.[73]

The Reformed view of regeneration may be gear up autonomously from other outlooks in at least two ways.

First, classical Roman Catholicism teaches that regeneration occurs at baptism, a view known as baptismal regeneration. Reformed theology has insisted that regeneration may take place at any fourth dimension in a person's life, even in the womb. It is not somehow the automated result of baptism. 2nd, information technology is common for many other evangelical branches of the church to speak of repentance and organized religion leading to regeneration (i.eastward., people are born again only later on they exercise saving faith). Past contrast, Reformed theology teaches that original sin and total depravity deprive all people of the moral ability and will to do saving faith. ... Regeneration is entirely the work of God the Holy Spirit - we can practise null on our ain to obtain it. God alone raises the elect from spiritual death to new life in Christ.[74] [75]

History and usage [edit]

Historically, Christianity has used various metaphors to describe its rite of initiation, that is, spiritual regeneration via the sacrament of baptism by the power of the water and the spirit. This remains the mutual understanding in most of Christendom, held, for example, in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism,[45] Anglicanism,[76] and in other historic branches of Protestantism. However, sometime later on the Reformation, Evangelicalism attributed greater significance to the expression born over again [77] as an experience of religious conversion,[78] symbolized by deep-water baptism, and rooted in a commitment to 1'due south own personal faith in Jesus Christ for conservancy. This same belief is, historically, as well an integral office of Methodist doctrine,[79] [80] and is connected with the doctrine of Justification.[81]

Co-ordinate to Encyclopædia Britannica:

'Rebirth' has often been identified with a definite, temporally datable form of 'conversion'. ... With the voluntaristic type, rebirth is expressed in a new alignment of the will, in the liberation of new capabilities and powers that were hitherto undeveloped in the person concerned. With the intellectual type, it leads to an activation of the capabilities for understanding, to the quantum of a "vision". With others it leads to the discovery of an unexpected beauty in the order of nature or to the discovery of the mysterious meaning of history. With still others information technology leads to a new vision of the moral life and its orders, to a selfless realization of love of neighbor. ... each person affected perceives his life in Christ at any given time equally "newness of life."[82]

According to J. Gordon Melton:

Born once again is a phrase used by many Protestants to depict the phenomenon of gaining faith in Jesus Christ. Information technology is an experience when everything they have been taught every bit Christians becomes real, and they develop a direct and personal human relationship with God.[83]

According to Andrew Purves and Charles Partee:

Sometimes the phrase seems to exist judgmental, making a distinction betwixt 18-carat and nominal Christians. Sometimes ... descriptive, like the distinction between liberal and conservative Christians. Occasionally, the phrase seems historic, similar the division between Cosmic and Protestant Christians. ... [the term] usually includes the notion of human being choice in conservancy and excludes a view of divine election past grace alone.[84]

The term built-in over again has become widely associated with the evangelical Christian renewal since the late 1960s, commencement in the Us and then around the world. Associated peradventure initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion feel, accepting Jesus Christ every bit lord and savior in guild to be saved from hell and given eternal life with God in heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to place devout believers.[12] By the mid-1970s, born again Christians were increasingly referred to in the mainstream media as part of the built-in over again movement.

In 1976, Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson's book Born Again gained international notice. Time magazine named him "One of the 25 about influential Evangelicals in America."[85] The term was sufficiently prevalent then that during the year's presidential campaign, Democratic party nominee Jimmy Carter described himself every bit "born again" in the first Playboy magazine interview of an American presidential candidate.

Colson describes his path to organized religion in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the "born over again" identity as a cultural construct in the US. He writes that his spiritual experience followed considerable struggle and hesitancy to have a "personal run into with God." He recalls:

while I sat lone staring at the sea I love, words I had non been certain I could understand or say barbarous from my lips: "Lord Jesus, I believe in You. I accept You. Please come into my life. I commit it to Yous." With these few words...came a sureness of mind that matched the depth of feeling in my heart. There came something more: force and serenity, a wonderful new assurance about life, a fresh perception of myself in the world effectually me.[86]

Jimmy Carter was the get-go President of the United states to publicly declare that he was born-once again, in 1976.[87] By the 1980 campaign, all 3 major candidates stated that they had been born again.[88]

Sider and Knippers[89] state that "Ronald Reagan's election that fall [was] aided by the votes of 61% of 'born-again' white Protestants."

The Gallup Organization reported that "In 2003, 42% of U.S. adults said they were born-once more or evangelical; the 2004 per centum is 41%" and that, "Black Americans are far more likely to identify themselves as built-in-once more or evangelical, with 63% of blacks saying they are born-over again, compared with 39% of white Americans. Republicans are far more likely to say they are born-once again (52%) than Democrats (36%) or independents (32%)."[ninety]

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics, referring to several studies, reports "that 'built-in-once again' identification is associated with lower support for authorities anti-poverty programs." It also notes that "self-reported built-in-again" Christianity, "strongly shapes attitudes towards economic policy."[91]

Names which have been inspired by the term [edit]

The idea of "rebirth in Christ" has inspired[92] some common European forenames: French René/Renée, Dutch Renaat/Renate, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Croation Renato/Renata, Latin Renatus/Renata, all of which mean "reborn", "born once more".[93]

Run into also [edit]

  • Altar call – Tradition in some Christian churches
  • Baptismal regeneration – Doctrines held past major Christian denomination
  • Born-again virgin – Person who commits to abstinence after having had sexual intercourse
  • Child dedication – Deed of consecration of children
  • Jesus movement – Quondam evangelical Christian movement
  • Dvija – Twice-born status of Hindu male person later Upanayana
  • Evangelism – Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Monergism – View within Christian theology
  • Sinner'southward prayer – Evangelical Christian term referring to any prayer of repentance

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  • The New Birth, John Wesley, sermon No. 45. Wesley'due south education on being born again, and argument that it is fundamental to Christianity.

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