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Q&R with Greg Albrecht – “Is Being Born Again the Same as the New Creation?”

 Question: I'm trying to get a clear understanding on what the new creation in Christ means - specifically in Gal 6:15.   Can you recommend any good books/articles that could help me? Hope you can help! Warm regards, A Pastor in California Response: My initial response is that all of the New Testament metaphors for new creation, salvation, conversion, transformation, being one in Christ, new men and women in Christ, putting “on” Christ, born again, being children of God, being heirs of his kingdom, being resurrected in Christ from a watery grave, et al,  all speak of the same event, not of course to be ...

New – Questions & Response Page

Keep checking back for more questions. Plain Truth Ministries and Christianity Without the Religion have received thousands of questions from readers like you over the years. We thought it might be helpful to bring many of these questions and their response together in one resource page Q & R - (Questions & Response). If you have questions or just want to see what other people are asking about, check out our new resource page. Click here for Questions and Response PTM’s Questions & Response feature addresses actual questions on various topics sent to us from all over the world. Greg Albrecht and Brad Jersak answer as many ...

New Resource Page – Questions & Response

Plain Truth Ministries and Christianity Without the Religion have received hundreds of questions from readers like you over the years. We thought it might be helpful to bring many of these questions and their response together in one resource page Q & R - (Questions & Response). If you have questions or just want to see what other people are asking about, check out our new resource page. Click here for Questions and Response PTM’s Question & Response feature addresses actual questions on various topics sent to us from all over the world. Greg Albrecht and Brad Jersak answer as many questions as possible. Here are some of the ...

Why Did Jesus Call a Woman a Dog? – by Greg Albrecht

The Canaanites became mortal enemies of the Jews some 1,500 or so years before the time of Jesus when they resisted the new nation of Israel as it attempted to inhabit the Promised Land. Matthew 15:21-28 relates the story of a Canaanite woman who was so desperate to seek healing for her daughter that she defied social and religious conventions as she publicly spoke to Jesus (a man she didn't know) —beyond that, a Jewish man. We know, from everything else we read in the Gospels, that Jesus, God in the flesh, loved this woman, but it didn't seem that way to her when she first started talking to Jesus. She cries out, "Son of David, have ...