You are just plain wrong.
You are just plain wrong.
Yep...I and most of the bible translators out there are wrong...And you are right...
Nicodemus acknowledges that the requirement is to be born a second time (again)...
Peter says we are 'born again'...
ἄνωθεν
anōthen
an'-o-then
From G507; from above; by analogy from the first; by implication anew: - from above, again, from the beginning (very first), the top.
I don't understand your fixation with this...Obviously anothen can mean from above, from the first, anew, again, from the beginning, and the top...
None of those completes the context of the narrative as well as the word again...That's why most of the 'scholars' chose again...It can mean any one of those words but 'again' fits the bill the best...
We were born once, but we must be born 'again', from above...What is your problem???
If Jesus had truly meant again He would have used "Palon."
Well tell us more, Carnac...
How many times do you plan on going around this carousel??? John 3:3 uses the Greek word "ἄνωθεν (anÅthen)" for "born again/from above". we already know that. HOWEVER, to insist someone is "wrong" because they do not agree to your strict use of "from above" for that Greek word only proves your OWN error. How many times in the New Testament IS that Greek word used? I'll tell you - 13 times. In some of those verses "from above" would certainly fit, but in others it would be stupid to insist it ALWAYS meant that. For example,
Luke 1:3 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first (anothen) to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus
And, - Acts 26:5, Which knew me from the beginning (anothen) if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
And, - Galatians 4:9, But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again (anothen) to be in bondage?
The point is STILL that what Jesus told Nicodemas was that a new birth had to happen in order for a man to be saved. Even Peter used a term that meant "born again" (see I Pet. 1:3 and I Pet. 1:23).