KingdomRose
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If you are not born again you are not saved.
Being born again happens when you confess and repent of your sins. Jesus washes away your sins...you are as a person with a new life, you are born again.
To be born again means that you have been anointed by God's Spirit, and you will rule in heaven with Jesus. That's all. ALL Christians---those with the earthly hope also---will have their sins washed away, and we are all expected to conform our personalities to God's requirements and follow Jesus' example.
It takes EFFORT to become new people. As Paul said:
"Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry....By these you once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way. But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths. Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator....Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another...." (etc., etc.) (Colossians 3:5-13, NAB)
"Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps." (I Peter 2:21, NAB)