born-again Christian

A Christian who has experienced a distinct, dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus, especially a member of certain Protestant groups that stress this experience. The expression recalls words of Jesus in the Gospels: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (See evangelical.)

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In nonreligious contexts, someone who is “born again” has a new enthusiasm for doing something.

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He’s a born-again Christian whose adherence to increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories have him believing that even the NFL has been infiltrated by “globalists.”

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A Baptist Sunday school teacher, Carter was among the first presidential candidates to embrace the label of born-again Christian.

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DeLorean became a born-again Christian and told Playboy that he had been the victim of his own “insatiable pride ... an arrogance that was beyond that of any other human being alive.”

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Berkowitz has since expressed remorse and said he is a born-again Christian.

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Her comedy may not be for everyone, though, like the family of her new boyfriend, whom she described as a born-again Christian.

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