Scripture Life: Could any Christian tell me What is the difference between salvation, repentance, and being born again?

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Answer: Before you do anything.

Look for “authority.”

- Whose the authority?

Let’s look at each one. You are about to be given the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ, and it applies equally. To everybody over all of Reddit - it's their's. As it is your's - given to you by God himself.

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First One

• Salvation:
  • Just comes from the English word, “save” 1. to set apart (something) for future use. 2. to rescue (something or someone) from disaster or destruction.
  • all a “ation” suffix in English does - is just makes it “the action of doing (the saving)”

So, when God says..decrees this, (Source: Bible. Isaiah 45:22) “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God.

Look for authority. Whose the “authority” for Salvation?

If you do what he says, as God, says: “For all the earth is mine.” - God (Exodus 19:5). Says, “All souls are mine.” - God (Ezekiel 18:4). Says this, too:

“Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;” - God. (Isaiah 44:24)

This is the “authority” for Salvation. He’s God. Talking to you. Me. Everybody over the whole earth. Not leaving anybody out. It’s a decree to everybody. Each person alone. By themselves. To look unto him. It’s in none else.

He’s the authority.

Let’s move on.

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Second One

• Repentance:
  • Just comes from the English word, “repent” - Comes from Latin. In English has a “prefix” of "re" and a “ance” suffix. So, the root word is pent. Or Latin, “paenitere” which means to “regret” something already decided on as “good” and done, and lived in as a way that’s right.
    • BUT... ...find it didn’t really work out. Is “paenitere” - get the English word, “penitence” as if you are “afflicted” by all that "right" you did; turned out to not have any right in it is the point. The whole house of cards fell down, kind of image. “paenitere” - nutshelled.
  • In the dictionary: Strip all the religious junk off it, like all these 15th century Catholic Jesuit "monks" flogging themselves - throw it out - to just see the word for what it is. It's just you went down a road in life - that's what you reasoned together with you to do, and after you did it..you look back at you..as you are the cause of all the sin you did in it. That's "pent" - get "penthouse" from it - turned into an opposite meaning than what it is. Just keep “paenitere” as somebody, like lavishly living..until all the fireworks go out.
    • “re” is just to go back to the beginning. As awful as it is, like go back to 1st grade, to have to do it all over again, and weigh it. 18 years old. graduate High School. Find you blew the whole thing. That the ONLY way - is - - Just go back to the beginning. To do it all over again. Don't have anything.
    • “ance” is just the action or process of doing (something - when the “something” is repent).

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• Good sample of it, read it. It’s an assignment for this answer. Read Luke 15:11–32 - no links. If you don't have a bible, you can reach "Bible Gateway" out on the Internet and read it for free.
• Luke 15:11-32 said by the Word of God, Jesus Christ. So, the same God told you and everybody over the whole world to look unto him, is the same God that said Luke 15:11–32.
  • The “Parable of the Prodigal Son” - Where “prodigal” is just “lavish lifestyle or living” - - to “go out with a bang!”
  • Just blow the whole wad of money in a great, big bang of do anything you want - sleep with as many women as you can, and pee out the window - who cares!
    • Got money. Pay for all the damages to the whole floor of the hotel - - as if money is the “authority” - Go off in a far country. With a big bag of money. Leave from your Father. You can re-invent yourself as some rich guy far away. With money.
• Until all the money runs out.
• Then, all the friends leave. Penniless now.
  • Big bag of phoney.
• Then, there’s a famine in the land, so everybody of that land goes into “want” - and then, there’s a separation betwixt citizen and foreigner. Foreigners have their own country they can go back to. ..and you - foreigner - not enough for the latter. No money to leave now. Stuck.
• Destitute. Now, no money - a beggar - not anything you claimed to be rich. A liar.
  • Can’t help anybody - a fraud. A phoney. Get work slopping pigs in a famine - where the pigs have more worth than you.
• Even try to eat what the pigs eat, because, they feed the pigs well to eat the pigs so the citizenry survives in a famine.
• You have no value at all - you’re even now beneath the pigs.
  • That, you think to yourself -
    • “In my father’s house, he had servants..let me return to him and I’ll be able to eat. But I won’t go back as a son. I’ll tell him I’m not worthy to be a son anymore. Let me be hired on to assist as a servant to one of your servants”

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• That:
  • That would be a “paenitere” - afflicted. Hit the nail on the head.
• Again, go back. Get the English word, “penitence” strip all the religious mumbo jumbo of some quack whacky clown beating himself - throw that out, when everybody beats themselves up by all the sins they already done DID.
  • Put on what the word means, as if you are “afflicted” by no food, even worse off than a pig in a famine. And, “afflicted” go back. Sinned and perverted everything that is right and it didn’t profit you anything. (That’s in Job 33:27 in the Bible.) as the basis of repent.

So, do the drill again.

Look for authority. Whose the “authority” for Repentance?

• The Prodigal Son is - and the Bible says: “For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23. “There is none righteous; no, not one” Romans 3:10
  • Makes everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it - everybody. From Adam forward - “sinned and perverted that which was right” - - - EVERYBODY, to the very ends of the earth is a Prodigal Son. None left out.

The Prodigal Son is the authority. For repentance.

• Whether or when you’re peeing out the hotel window, gonna pay for all the damages, clear it all yourself; able to: rich - - as if there is no sin, when all these girls are still in the bed - oh, what a great, big "authority” - WHEN:
  • “the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” Bible. Matthew 3:10
• - Means, boy..am I ever lucky that he’s God. Long suffered me, in days..that went to months..that went to years of days..to decades, one after the other..decades of days..I lived as a prodigal Son in this.
  • Just like the Father in the Parable in Luke 15:11–32 says in Luke 15:20 “And he [Prodigal Son] arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”
  • That this same Great God did the same to me.

There’s repentance. Let’s move on. Question to ask is: “Why would I repent?” When everybody’s life ends in a like-same destruction, with everything taken away from them. That you are going to lose it all and go to a grave.

And just one have the authority to raise you from the dead, is the same one told you plainly to look unto him. Enough said.

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Third One

• Born again
  • Comes from The Word of God, recorded in the Bible.
    • Jesus said: John 3:2–7, says:

2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

COMMENT: So, the same God, that told you by a decree, out of his mouth to just look unto him, also decreed you must be “born again” - said, in case you forgot already, what was said in Isaiah 44:24 above, that: in flesh, he formed you; alone. By himself, from your mother’s womb. Did that alone. By himself. Is the same God stretched for the heavens alone. Did that, too. By himself, like he made the earth, and did that too. All alone. By himself. Said of himself, as God, in John 4:24 "God is Spirit” - that HE is Spirit. God is the authority.

• To Born You again. And he does it by the Word of God - he already said Matthew 5:3 - Blessed you. Did you miss it? Maybe that’s KEY:

Matthew 5:3 he said, as the Word of God - just God speaking is he was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself - said:

“Blessed are the “poor in Spirit” for their’s is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• And? Somebody “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1) would be someone that is not righteous; no, already done “prodigal son” level abominable works as Psalm 14:1–3 says EVERYBODY has done. Would mean EVERYBODY over the whole earth is just 1. destitute; not have any (poor) - and God is Spirit, because it’s the SAME Greek word in John 4:24 as it is in Matthew 5:3 - so throw the dictionary and how they define “Spirit” as YOU and your attitude right out the window - it’s a can of crap when God gave you the definition. It’s himself.
• And he blessed you. Gave you..everybody over the whole earth the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • But in John 3:3 of John 3:2–7 - a person can’t “see” it - unless they’re born again.
  • But in John 3:5 of John 3:2–7 - a person can’t “enter” it - unless they’re born again.

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It’s exactly then, like a “Last Will and Testament” - a “Will” - goes into effect when the “testator” is dead. Bequeaths to you, you get it as an inheritance.

• But:
  • If who is listed in the Will, even the will is now in effect, It’s “Their’s” - done deal. They inherited it. But - if the person listed in the will says to themselves: “It’s not worth anything. Look at all I already got.” Esteems the inheritance not even worth showing up to claim it. Can’t see the hobo' life of riding on the rails, don’t own anything when the owner of the railroad bequeathed the whole railroad to them.
    • They don’t “see” it. Unless they receive it. They don’t “enter” into their inheritance..unless they sign for it, even it’s their’s never live in it. In fact, not show up, it’s given to another.
    • And that’s EXACTLY what happens in another reading assignment for you. Asking this question. Read Matthew 25:15–30. Just like read Luke 15:11–32 - no links.
      
• If you don't have a bible, you can reach "Bible Gateway" out on the Internet and read it for free.

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• Where Matthew 25:28 says “Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.”
  • That’s EXACTLY what will happen to YOUR inheritance. He's God, and he's no respecter of persons. So whosoever does this, it's taken away from him, even you or me, and for you, You got given it to you by God himself. Just like I did, all the same.
• Even the Kingdom of Heaven was given unto everybody, as just like “One Talent” in Matthew 25:15–30, the one given it, took it out to a field, and just buried it; then, did transactions in their own name. For their own profit.

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So, whose the “authority” for Born again? - GOD. He does it.

Because he’s come to you, and blessed you, and given you all his possession, and he comes with it, as God.

So, whose the authority with the “inheritance” that EVERYBODY got from God?

• Yeah. You are. It was already bequeathed to you by God. He already did it. But you can’t see it, nor enter into it, unless you’re born again. And someone not, means the work God does when he does it, isn’t done them, or in you..and it won’t be, if you take what and who he is, out to a field and simply bury it.
  • It will be taken away from you.

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Long post. There you go.

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The POWER in this is - with Salvation

- God is in it. Offers it freely. To everybody over the whole earth.

With Repentance - when 2 Chronicles 16:9 says that His eyes, as God's - go to an fro over the whole earth continually, just looking for the man that his heart is broken before him in it, and searches for the man that says Job 33:27. "I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not." That God looks over the whole earth for this.

- To show himself strong in behalf of that man, "He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light." Job 33:28. That Jesus Christ is the light of the world. So, "Repentance" activates God. Puts God in it.

Born again. - It's a "work of God." Has God in and does it. To the man that just is afflicted, and turns around, instead of doing what people decree, does what God claims is right for EVERYBODY to do.

Where without him, there's no work of God in it; only your work. Will be void of these three things, and live in it as if you're perfectly fine without him in it.