Oh, really! Then Jesus must not have been speaking for God. Oh, wait! Jesus is God!
Please use that great Catholic intellect to quote the Scriptures that say that we do not have to be born again, no are filled with his Spirit. Oh wait, that's just another tradition of men... Or, Roman Catholic theology as it's commonly referred.
John 3: 3 Jesus replied (to Nicodemus), “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
“Oh, really! Then Jesus must not have been speaking for God. Oh, wait! Jesus is God!”
That doesn’t follow, by any tortured stretch of imagination, which leaves nothing but empty malice in the rest of your remarks.
“Please use that great Catholic intellect to quote the Scriptures that say that we do not have to be born again, no are filled with his Spirit.”
Case in point.
Signing on to the Protestant understanding of ”born again and Spirit filled” is several steps backward in spiritual and intellectual development.
I didn’t say that “we do not have to be born again, no are filled with his Spirit;” I said that *your*understanding* of these things is insufficiently developed.
And, as one might expect, you completely failed to understand the plain meaning of those words.