Were you born again as a young child? How old were you when you were saved?

[ALAYMAN]

I was saved as a young adult of 19 years of age, but am curious, since many of you grew up in church or a Christian home, how old you were when you were saved?


And if you made a profession before you were, let's say ten years old, did you "get saved again" (meaning you felt the first time wasn't real and you actually got saved when you finally understood your condition and heard the gospel) later on as a teen or young adult?

Or did you struggle with whether you were really saved as a little tyke and consequently got reassurance?

 

[T-Bone]

I was raised in the church...I walked the aisle at age 7 because a girl with a silver tooth walked before me and I thought she was cute.  The pastor asked me "do you love Jesus", well of course I loved Jesus.  He then asked me, "would you like to get baptized".  I said yes, what seven year old boy in Arizona would not want to get in a big tub of water...that was it.  But you know it wasn't until I was 16, having grown up in the church, that the Holy Spirit brought me to a place of conviction that I was really without Christ and that I needed Him in my life.  In the carport of my parents home with my older cousin sharing with me, I responded to the Holy Spirit's call and trusted Jesus as my Savior. 

 

[raised2walk]

I was saved when God chose me before the foundation of the world. . . . 8)

 

[rsc2a]

I was saved when God chose me before the foundation of the world. . . . 8)

^ ^  This.

Oh...and I am being saved even today. And I will be saved when He returns.

 

[ALAYMAN]

^ ^  This.

Oh...and I am being saved even today. And I will be saved when He returns.

Don't be hijacking my thread with your twisted predestinarian puke, O-boy.

I was raised in the church...I walked the aisle at age 7 because a girl with a silver tooth walked before me and I thought she was cute.  The pastor asked me "do you love Jesus", well of course I loved Jesus.  He then asked me, "would you like to get baptized".  I said yes, what seven year old boy in Arizona would not want to get in a big tub of water...that was it.  But you know it wasn't until I was 16, having grown up in the church, that the Holy Spirit brought me to a place of conviction that I was really without Christ and that I needed Him in my life.  In the carport of my parents home with my older cousin sharing with me, I responded to the Holy Spirit's call and trusted Jesus as my Savior. 

I don't think I'd ever heard your testimony before, thanks for sharing.

 

[rsc2a]

^ ^  This.

Oh...and I am being saved even today. And I will be saved when He returns.

Don't be hijacking my thread with your twisted predestinarian puke, O-boy.

You don't like the Bible?

 

[christundivided]

My mother was a member of a Freewill Baptist church. What times I went to church I went with her. I made professions of faith before but I had absolutely no understand of the Gospel nor did I have a clear understanding of my position. Being "saved" to me.... was TRYING to live right. As I grew older I started hanging around a friend from school who went to a local IFB church. We'd camp out on the weekends and get drunk. Then we would get up and go with his parents to church on Sunday morning. I ended up became friends with a family that lived near me. The man was a Sunday school teacher in the church and I began going regular with them. I ended up getting saved when I was 17 years old in the same little church.  A clear understanding of the Gospel made me realize my condition and that my only remedy was Christ.

 

[ALAYMAN]

^ ^  This.

Oh...and I am being saved even today. And I will be saved when He returns.

Don't be hijacking my thread with your twisted predestinarian puke, O-boy.

You don't like the Bible?

I'm fine with the Bible, just not your interpretation of much of it.

More to the point, this thread was about a specific context of children who make professions of faith and their struggle for assurance.


That said, AW Pink, one of the strongest predestinarians around, speaking to those opposing him from the Arminian perspective, put it this way....

Friend; was there not a time when you walked in the counsel of the ungodly, stood in the way of sinners, sat in the seat of the scorners, and with them said, "We will not have this Man to reign over us" (Luke 19:14)? Was there not a time when you "would not come to Christ that you might have life" (John 5:40)? Yea, was there not a time when you mingled your voice with those who said unto God, "Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?"


Now, that will be the last I post to you if you persist down this impertinent rabbit hole.

 

[christundivided]

^ ^  This.

Oh...and I am being saved even today. And I will be saved when He returns.

Don't be hijacking my thread with your twisted predestinarian puke, O-boy.

You don't like the Bible?

When you get done debating FSSL about creation, lets discuss election and predestination. You up for it?

 

[rsc2a]

[quote author=christundivided]When you get done debating FSSL about creation, lets discuss election and predestination. You up for it?[/quote]

Someone else may want a turn to debate. I don't mind having that debate with you though.

 

[kaba]

When I was 11 and attending a christian youth camp, my counselor went through the Romans Road and I accepted the Lord as my Personal Savior. I have no doubts of my salvation.

 

[rsc2a]

^ ^  This.

Oh...and I am being saved even today. And I will be saved when He returns.

Don't be hijacking my thread with your twisted predestinarian puke, O-boy.

You don't like the Bible?

I'm fine with the Bible, just not your interpretation of much of it.

More to the point, this thread was about a specific context of children who make professions of faith and their struggle for assurance.


That said, AW Pink, one of the strongest predestinarians around, speaking to those opposing him from the Arminian perspective, put it this way....

Friend; was there not a time when you walked in the counsel of the ungodly, stood in the way of sinners, sat in the seat of the scorners, and with them said, "We will not have this Man to reign over us" (Luke 19:14)? Was there not a time when you "would not come to Christ that you might have life" (John 5:40)? Yea, was there not a time when you mingled your voice with those who said unto God, "Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?"


Now, that will be the last I post to you if you persist down this impertinent rabbit hole.

It has now been shown that salvation from the power of sin is a process which goes on throughout the believer’s life....As our salvation from the pleasure of sin is the consequence of our regeneration, and as salvation from the penalty of sin respects our justification, so salvation from the power of sin has to do with the practical side of our sanctification. The word sanctification signifies "separation"—separation from sin. We need hardly say that the word holiness is strictly synonymous with "sanctification," being an alternative rendering of the same Greek word. As the practical side of sanctification has to do with our separation from sin, we are told, "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor. 7:1). That practical sanctification or holiness is a process, a progressive experience, is clear from this: "Follow . . . holiness without which no man shall see the Lord" (Heb. 12:14). The fact that we are to "follow" holiness clearly intimates that we have not yet attained unto the Divine standard which God requires of us. This is further seen in the passage just quoted: "perfecting holiness" or completing it. - A.W. Pink in A Fourfold Salvation

Anyone else you'd like to cite?

 

[ALAYMAN]

....Anyone else you'd like to cite?

lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus. 

 

[christundivided]

[quote author=christundivided]When you get done debating FSSL about creation, lets discuss election and predestination. You up for it?

Someone else may want a turn to debate. I don't mind having that debate with you though.
[/quote]

Holler when you're ready.

 

[rsc2a]

[quote author=ALAYMAN]lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus. [/quote]

Not if you are among the elect.

 

[T-Bone]

[quote author=ALAYMAN]lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus.

Not if you are among the elect.
[/quote]

Wow! That is an extreme view of reform theology...one that seems to have no problem contradicting the very words of Jesus.  Stay there if you want, I will choose to simply trust what He said!

 

[rsc2a]

[quote author=ALAYMAN]lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus.

Not if you are among the elect.

Wow! That is an extreme view of reform theology...one that seems to have no problem contradicting the very words of Jesus.  Stay there if you want, I will choose to simply trust what He said![/quote]

What words of Jesus?

 

[T-Bone]

[quote author=ALAYMAN]lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus.

Not if you are among the elect.

Wow! That is an extreme view of reform theology...one that seems to have no problem contradicting the very words of Jesus.  Stay there if you want, I will choose to simply trust what He said!

What words of Jesus?
[/quote]

You can't help it can you...Obtuse is your name.  I guess being born again and believing have nothing to do with salvation...contrary to what the Bible clearly says.

 

[subllibrm]

[quote author=ALAYMAN]lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus.

Not if you are among the elect.
[/quote]

So when were you "born again"?

Alayman's point was that even Pink saw that there is a beginning point to the progression of salvation.

I met a guy who claims he was regenerated in his mother's womb and never took a breath as an unbeliever. You are starting to remind me of him.

 

[T-Bone]

[quote author=ALAYMAN]lol, keep on posting nimrod.  I never once have said that salvation isn't multifaceted (regeneration, sanctification, glorification being the simple model), but whay I have said, and about which you've obfuscated, is that it happens in space and time.  There was a time on earth in which you were not born again, just like Nicodemus.

Not if you are among the elect.

So when were you "born again"?

Alayman's point was that even Pink saw that there is a beginning point to the progression of salvation.

I met a guy who claims he was regenerated in his mother's womb and never took a breath as an unbeliever. You are starting to remind me of him.
[/quote]

Oh rsc2a, if consistent, will be more extreme then your friend...he will say he was saved before he ever existed.