There was a topic in another forum and I wanted to reply but I couldn't because I guess it was only for moderators.
Anyway... The Holy Spirit was part of the subject and rightly so. I was "saved" when I was baptized; and when I was baptized the Holy Spirit entered also. I was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son AND the Holy Spirit!
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. (John 3:5; NIV)
Some people don't believe in being baptized with water, much less being baptized as infants. I was baptized as an infant; it is biblical.
16 Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas (1 Corinthians 1:16; NIV)
15 When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us. (Acts 16:15; NIV)
There are other verses that say that whole households were baptized. Why wouldn't you think that it did not include babies and children. You have to keep in mind that these were converts. So it makes sense to me that from then on whenever there was a new member of the "household" or family they were baptized as soon as possible; as a baby.
Whenever there are converts to the church (True Church of Christ - Catholic Church), they are baptized if they weren't baptized before. If they don't convert to Catholism until they are adults, of course they will be baptized as adults. So you have to keep in mind that in the days of the first Apostles, they had new converts. So those new converts were of course adults. But their whole households were baptized including babies. So those new converts would then include any new member of their household as soon as they were born into it.
So if you ask a Catholic if they are "born again" the answer is YES! But your salvation CAN be lost. How you ask? By sinning of course. Sin separates us from God and therefore our salvation is lost. That is why I love my Catholic faith. We have the Sacrament of Confession where I can once again be reconciled with Jesus. Confession with a priest is also biblical; for another topic which I will post another time... gotta run.
Even though I don't have an NIV bible I used the quotes from that version of the bible since most of you here are Protestant. I don't own an NIV bible because it is not Catholic since Luther removed 7 books from the Old testament. So I got the verses from BibleGateway.com. I myself have three different Catholic versions; Ignatius RSV (Revised Standard Version), Douay-Rheims (which is the English translation of the Latin Vulgate; which is the Latin translation of the Original Greek & Hebrew bible) and I also have the NAB (New American Bible).