GodsGrace
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I believe you are incorrect-again.
A born-again believer cannot become "unborn" because spiritual birth is a divine, irreversible act of God. The Bible consistently teaches that salvation is a permanent transformation rather than a temporary condition. Those who truly believe are sealed, preserved, and eternally secure in Christ.
1. Spiritual Birth Is Permanent
In John 3:3-7, Jesus describes being "born again" (γεννηθῇ ἄνωθεν, gennēthē anōthen) as a spiritual birth from above. Just as physical birth cannot be undone, neither can spiritual rebirth.
John 10:28-29: "I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." The Greek "οὐ μὴ ἀπόλωνται" (ou mē apolōntai) is a double negative, meaning absolute negation—they will never be lost.
1 Peter 1:23: "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." The new birth comes from incorruptible seed, meaning it cannot be undone.
2. 2 Peter 2:20-22: Does It Teach Loss of Salvation?
The passage in 2 Peter 2:20-22 does not describe true believers losing salvation but rather false converts who never truly belonged to Christ:
"A dog returns to its own vomit" and "A sow... returns to wallowing in the mire" both emphasize that these individuals never had a new nature—they merely cleaned up outwardly but remained unchanged.
Compare with 1 John 2:19: "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us."
The passage states they had "knowledge of the Lord", not that they were regenerated.
Many can have knowledge without salvation (*Heb_6:4-6; Mat_7:21-23).
3. True Believers Are Sealed and Kept by God
+Ephesians 1:13-14: "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth... ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise." The Greek word for sealed (σφραγίζω, sphragizō) means a mark of permanent ownership.
+Philippians 1:6: "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."
+Romans 8:38-39: Nothing, including our own choices, "shall be able to separate us from the love of God."
A truly born-again believer cannot become unborn.
2 Peter 2:20-22 refers to false converts, not true believers.
True salvation is an irreversible act of God, sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Please show me how 2 Peter is referring to NOT TRUE BELIEVERS.
Please read the verses again.2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world - This does not necessarily mean that they had been true Christians, and had fallen from grace. People may outwardly reform, and escape from the open corruptions which prevail around them, or which they had themselves practiced, and still have no true grace at heart.
It's becoming silly how we don't even understand what Jesus or Paul or Peter wrote.
THEY ESCAPED THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS.
What does this mean?
THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED.
What does this mean?
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER HAD THEY NOT KNOWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
What does this mean?
Righteousness means TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD.
Peter is saying THEY WERE RIGHT WITH GOD.
I do believe that if you're RIGHT WITH GOD it means you're born again.
THEY RETURNED TO THEIR VOMIT.
What had they left that they RETURNED to it?
see above.For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,.... The sins of it, the governing vices of it, which the men of the world are addicted to, and immersed in; for the whole world lies in wickedness, and which are of a defiling nature: the phrase is Rabbinical; it is said (q),
NO. It states that they were RIGHTEOUS."he that studies not in the law in this world, but is defiled בטנופי עלמא, "with the pollutions of the world", what is written of him? and they took him, and cast him without:''
these, men may escape, abstain from, and outwardly reform, with respect unto, and yet be destitute of the grace of God; so that this can be no instance of the final and total apostasy of real saints; for the house may be swept and garnished with an external reformation; persons may be outwardly righteous before men, have a form of godliness and a name to live, and yet be dead in trespasses and sins; all which they may have
Right...they 5 weren't ready either.Much like the five wise and five foolish virgins.
I think it would behoove us to be ready.
By OBEYING GOD.