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From: vm0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Paul Mulhern)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: a small question
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Date: 3 Oct 90 07:36:00 GMT
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Jon,
   The Bible says that you have to be born again.  (It doesn't say you
have to become a chandalier-swinging nut with no brain, but it does say
you have to be born again).  
   One of the effects of this is that the source of your motives
changes.  I'm not driven by the old sin/death nature of my old
self...now I'm motivated by the love/life nature of my re-created
spirit.  Romans makes a lot of distinctions between a born again and a
not-born again person.

-Vince