I wonder if being made alive is different than being born again, and if having one's heart circumcised
guarantees that one will attain to life ever after. Some say yes, which is why I wonder. Some say you
cannot hear or experience God if you are not born again, but I had multiple encounters over many years
that spanned into decades before laying down my opposition to God and surrendering my will and my
life to Him. Also, it is the Holy Spirit of God that convicts the world of sin. Surely they experience that
before they are made alive, before coming to believe, before being born again?
Words are kind of like semantics
I say by God I am forgiven and believe that, therefore God saved me by that belief to God, which, that I will not quit, or ever deny God, having no doubt. Have any doubt and God waits and waits for the people to get out of doubt, does not establish those that doubt, even a modicum (Isaiah 7:1-9) The same as one reads in Job. I see this when I read that book of Job. God puts my name the in place of Job. I hear God saying, I will not deny God either, God is telling you the same. trusting for you to hear it too.
Woe, woe is me
Isaiah 6:1-7
King James Version
6 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lordsitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
In the risen Son is proof from God, Son is the way, the truth and new life offered for us the people to be saved.
Believe, receive and eventually see if one does not quit. one will see eventually not quitting, especially, whenever going through troubles here on earth first. Will, we go through troubles and continue to believe God, as Job did, and then see even deeper as Jesus did with " the art of fighting without fighting" then resurrected on the third day. seen by over 500 witnesses then, and even the Pharisees saw him as risen also. Col 2 talks of this truth too
Believe God, receive from God
Born again, (made new) whatever word(s) convey God's truth is God's communication that does this for the people that remain in belief to his love and mercy for them by Son to them, see this to stand in God's rest
Hebrews 4:9-13
King James Version
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
trusting God not self or anyone else as I see hypo are seeing this also