No one is born a Christian. All people are born sinners.
No one can will or choose to be anything but remain a wretched sinner. Only the Great God can will and choose and create. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us, the Righteous for the ungodly. That henceforth we should not serve sin. By the New Testament Blood shed for many for the forgiveness and remission of sins. Why would one who had been translated from the power of darkness into the kingdom of the bright and morning Star, Jesus Christ, willingly fall back into perdition? Unless iniquity was found in them and they loved darkness rather than light, neither can they return to the light after they have once been enlightened by the Holy Spirit and have tasted the sincere milk of the word of God, it is impossible for them to be restored to repentance unto godly sorrow, seeing how they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh daily in their willful transgressions against the Holy Christ of God, treading on his Blood.
E K K L E S I A-Apostolic 250
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