Christianity - The Basics

What Every Christian should Know

Maria Yiangou

• Publisher: Kingdom Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780993595936
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Chapter 1

What does it mean to be Born Again?

Let us read what the Bible says about being Born Again, when a man named Nicodemus came to Jesus in John 3:1, he was a Jewish leader, a rabbi, which means teacher.

There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee.

2 After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.”

3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.

6 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

8 The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

9 “How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.

10 Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?

11 I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony.

12 But if you don’t believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

13 No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.

14 And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

15 so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.

16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

So from reading the above verses in the Bible, it is very clear that the only way to see the Kingdom of God is to become Born Again, which is us making the very important decision to accept Christ as our Personal Saviour. Without this action Jesus says that we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This means that we cannot be saved and hence we cannot enter eternal salvation, which is Heaven. My question is how many people have never been told about accepting Christ as their Personal Saviour? According to the word of God, they will not be saved and will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. As we ar...

Table of contents

• Christianity – The Basics
• Copyright © Maria Yiangou 2016
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13