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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." |
Subject: baptismal regeneration? |
Bible Note: Searcher, That is your interpretation and your tradition's interpretation. I do not believe that the external and internal washing are mutually exclusive, but in fact work together even as Jesus was both God and man. The kind of sacramental theology I hold is incarnational. That is to say, Christ by his incarnation and saving work has redeemed all creation physical and spiritual and uses them even as he did in his ministry to effect cures: e.g. Mark 8:22-24 22: And they came to Beth-sa'ida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him. 23: And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?" 24: And he looked up and said, "I see men; but they look like trees, walking." 25: Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and saw everything clearly. Mark 7:32-34 32: And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him. 33: And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue; 34: and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Eph'phatha," that is, "Be opened." 35: And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. God does not have to use the physical to effect our physical or spiritual healing, neither did he have to become man to save us. But he did. Emmaus |