Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Born Again 101 Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 04:43:41 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl scribe Henning) writes: >It seems that a lot of christians let themselves in for a lot of >unnecessarily self-destructive disappointment when they're "born-again", >and they find that they're substantially the same people they had been >before, after all. Could be true. You can't expect yourself to be instantly perfect. But, I can claim that I'm a significantly different person than I was when I wasn't a Christian. Indeed, in the last year or so trying to be a _committed_ Christian, I've changed alot. It's not that I'm perfect, but I have caught of glimpse of perfection, which to me is pretty amazing. The revelation could be said to have made me new. I feel born again because I have new _goals_. (If anything, the more I know about God, the worse a person I seem to myself and the more I know I need to change my actions.) >kph >-- >"The shrewder mobs of America, who dislike having two minds upon a subject, >both determine and act upon it drunk; by which means a world of cold and >tedious speculation is dispensed with." -- Washington Irving -- =----------------Logan-Shaw---(lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)----------------= "A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right...You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping" - C. S. Lewis, _Mere_Christianity_