If there has not been a complete change in the way you think after becoming a Christian then you have not been born again.
When we become born again we are a completely new creation, nothing we think is the same as it was. Everything we desire has changed from worldly to desiring the mind of Christ.
No change, no salvation! But remember you do not change yourself, it is Christ Who makes us into a new creation when we confess our sinfulness and desire to walk with Him.
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 …16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"
Ephesians 2:10
" 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
There should be an initially evident change of character in everyone who becomes born again. The evidence that we have a changed heart is in the fruit of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
No change, no fruit equals no salvation! Just saying you are a Christian is not the evidence that you have been born again.
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