[SADMILLIE]

Excellent question. It simply means that you accept that Jesus is the Son of God and HE died on the cross and rose from the dead for all your sins,past present and future, BORN AGAIN!! John 3:16. Simple.

[A CA Guy]

Agreed and that would happen at some time by personal choice, not as a child IMO.

[James R. Aist]

Yes, indeed, it does mean that.

[Zuriel]

**John 3:16. Simple.**

“..whosoever believeth in him...”.

Jesus Christ taught in John 3:3,5-8 his instructions on how to be born again. 3:16 is simply a condensed closing statement on his previous commands.

vs. 8. “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou HEAREST the SOUND thereof, but canst NOT tell whence it cometh, whither it goeth: so is EVERY ONE that is born of the Spirit”.

Those that hear his words, and keep (obey) them have eternal life.

[Cvengr]

Those might be the mechanics of becoming born again, but being born again means one has now received a new living human spirit, which is alive with God. Prior to being born again, the unbeliever only has a soul and body, but no human spirit capable of understanding spiritual things.

[fabian]

nice canned Christian response, but how can that come about. The bible speaks of being still and knowing that He is God. It also says that our Father already knows what se need...so I see that the church is totally lost the teaching history and has lost the fine art of true prayer that does indeed put people onto the true path of being born again.

[Hoodat]

That's not at all what it says. Nicodemus was inquiring about the kingdom of heaven, not about death on the cross. The gospel of Christ centers on the kingdom of heaven as we live on earth - not on what loop we must jump through to get our 'get into heaven after we die' pass. John 3:17 says that Christ came into the world to save the world (i.e. to bring it back into the fullness of the Garden which God first established). See Romans 8:20-23. Born again means we become a new creation. But if there is no evidence of that new creation, then nothing has changed in us, regardless of any declaration we happen to have made.