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NASB | John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:3 Jesus answered him, "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a person is born again [reborn from above--spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified], he cannot [ever] see and experience the kingdom of God." |
Bible Question: Every so often one hears the term "born-again Christian" even on news broadcasts. Isn't "born-again Christian" a redundancy? Aren't all Christians, by definition, born again? |
Bible Answer: I personally believe there are TRUE born-again Christian's, and then there are those people who claim to be Christian, who have not been born-again, and have some false conception of what born-again means. For instance: some people think that if your water baptized, then that constitutes that you are born-again. But I believe they fail to see the difference between being baptized which is a type of burial. Being born-again is not a burial, but rather is a birth. There is a big difference between a burial and a birth. In John Chapter 3 being born of the water refers to ones physical birth. We were in our mother's watery womb and then the water broke and you came forth born physically from that watery womb. Secondly being born of the Spirit refers to our spiritual birth. Only God can give us spiritual life. We cannot give ourselves spiritual life, because we were dead spiritually, and a dead spiritual corpse cannot do anything to produce life in itself. The life giving source must come from outside of us. The same way we had no say in our physically birth, we likewise play no role or part in our spiritual birth. |