{"id":34746,"date":"2012-09-12T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=34746"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T00:04:36","slug":"your-article-on-being-born-again-and-salvation-really-helped-in-a-discussion-with-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/your-article-on-being-born-again-and-salvation-really-helped-in-a-discussion-with-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Your article on being born again and salvation really helped in a discussion with Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I find your website very biblically based and am happy to see it up here. I looked up to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-is-the-difference-between-being-born-again-and-saved\/\">an answer about being born again and being saved<\/a> because I am discussing this issue with some Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses and they believe that one needs to be saved but not born again. I was raised with the belief that they were interchangeable. I found your article very helpful and just kept reading your other articles. Do you have these in a book I could buy somewhere to have on hand always?<\/p>\n<p>God bless and keep up the wonderful work.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad you are finding the website useful. I haven&#8217;t put the information into book form since it is being updated daily. I guess I could do a &#8220;best of&#8221; for each year, but I really don&#8217;t know when I would find the time. As it is I&#8217;m not keeping up with the questions that come in each day.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hi, I find your website very biblically based and am happy to see it up here. I looked up to find an answer about being born again and being saved because I am discussing this issue with some Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses and they believe that one needs to be saved but not born again. 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