"BORN AGAIN" REEXAMINED
"Born again" is vital, spiritual and conceptional, not ritual, physical and doctrinal. It transforms one's relationship to God and to all else.
Jesus replied "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God, unless they are born again. http://biblehub.com/john/3-3.htm
Unless one undergoes gestation and deliverance from the mother's womb--the first birth--the second birth, born again, is totally moot.
The first birth being physical, the second birth cannot be physical, leaving the spiritual or intellectual.
Man is born of both "water and spirit;" with water being physical, man's rebirth must be spiritual. http://biblehub.com/john/3-5.htm
But, Jesus also says "Except" or "Unless" one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. This scripture implies a troublesome fact, tacitly--that some of us are very different men--despite their appearances. Some men are not truly born of the "Spirit," hence the qualifying words, "except" or "unless" are present!
Neither do I impute this lack, this evil absence of Spirit, this woeful lack to race, creed, color, gender! Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit.
Having a discerning spirit is a necessary gift that distinguishes those with and those without Spirit.
It therefore clearly follows that not everyone may be, or even can be, "born again" due to a lack of Spirit.
Every seed won't grow, in a word !
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
"BORN AGAIN" REEXAMINED
"BORN AGAIN" REEXAMINED
"Born again" is vital, spiritual and conceptional, not ritual, physical and doctrinal. It transforms one's relationship to God and to all else.
Jesus replied "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God, unless they are born again. http://biblehub.com/john/3-3.htm
Unless one undergoes gestation and deliverance from the mother's womb--the first birth--the second birth, born again, is totally moot.
The first birth being physical, the second birth cannot be physical, leaving the spiritual or intellectual.
Man is born of both "water and spirit;" with water being physical, man's rebirth must be spiritual. http://biblehub.com/john/3-5.htm
But, Jesus also says "Except" or "Unless" one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. This scripture implies a troublesome fact, tacitly--that some of us are very different men--despite their appearances. Some men are not truly born of the "Spirit," hence the qualifying words, "except" or "unless" are present!
Neither do I impute this lack, this evil absence of Spirit, this woeful lack to race, creed, color, gender! Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit.
Having a discerning spirit is a necessary gift that distinguishes those with and those without Spirit.
It therefore clearly follows that not everyone may be, or even can be, "born again" due to a lack of Spirit.
Every seed won't grow, in a word !