Posted: Oct 11, 2021 10:35 am
truelgbt wrote:
A Christian is born again. There is no other.
Wrong, as usual. And you're repeating an error you've already been educated about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
The four largest branches of Christianity are the Catholic Church (1.3 billion/50.1%), Protestantism (920 million/36.7%), the Eastern Orthodox Church (230 million), and the Oriental Orthodox churches (62 million) (Orthodox churches combined at 11.9%),...
Over 50% of Christians are Catholic.
Protestants make up 26% of Christians.
That means that 74% of Christians are not Protestant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_again
Born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is caused distinctly and separately by baptism in Holy Spirit, not by baptism in water. It is a core doctrine of the denominations of the Methodist, Quaker, Baptist, and Pentecostal Church along with all other evangelical Christian denominations. All of these strongly believe Jesus' words in the Gospels: "You must be born again before you can see, or enter, the Kingdom of Heaven." Their doctrine also mandates that to be both "born again" and "saved" one must have a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Of the Protestant Christians, the doctrinal concept of being 'born again' is specific to a set of denominations which is far from the majority. Generally, it is restricted to evangelicals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
In 2016, there were an estimated 619 million evangelicals in the world, meaning that one in four Christians would be classified as evangelical.
Therefore, even if EVERY single evangelical believes in the doctrinal concept of being born again, this would still make the belief a small minority position among Christians - little more than a heresy, really.
How do you keep managing to be so wrong about everything, yet so confident? I can tell you: it's bigotry - you're running wholly on bigotry. What a great advert you are for the damage religion does to human psychology.
Perhaps you should be more worried about convincing your fellow Christians (although I am sure that few of them would want ANYTHING to do with someone like you) than being a vicious asshole to strangers on the internet just because they don't share your manic borrowed belief system?