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To: Cronos

It does not fit in your catholiciism drenched mind of your soul.


818 posted on 06/15/2020 7:32:21 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN
You see the error in your non-Christian rapture belief?

you go on about first and second heavens but you don't listen to Christ's teachings do you?

Do you read the Bible at all except in excerpts?

your passages show excerpts and then the conclusions in your post are against what Jesus taught

Has the wackadoodlisms of non-christianity twisted your mind to ignore the context?

Jesus clarified His words for you and you ignore it so you can cling to a false notion

The only biblical use of the term “born again” occurs in John 3:3-5—although, as we shall see, similar and related expressions such as “new birth” and “regeneration” occur elsewhere in Scripture (Titus 3:5; 1 Pet 1:3, 23). In John 3:3, Jesus tells Nicodemus, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The Greek expression translated “born again” (gennathei anothen) also means “born from above.” Jesus, it seems, makes a play on words with Nicodemus, contrasting earthly life, or what theologians would later dub natural life (”what is born of flesh”), with the new life of heaven, or what they would later call supernatural life (”what is born of Spirit”).

Nicodemus’ reply: “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” (John 3:4). Does he simply mistake Jesus to be speaking literally or is Nicodemus himself answering figuratively, meaning, “How can an old man learn new ways as if he were a child again?” We cannot say for sure, but in any case Jesus answers, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, `You must be born again.”’ (John 3:5-7).

Here Jesus equates “born again” or “born from above” with “born of water and the Spirit.”

Clearly, the context implies that born of “water and the Spirit” refers to baptism.

1 John 3:9 [9] "Committeth not sin": That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this seed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God. But then he may fall from this happy state, by the abuse of his free will, as appears from Rom. 11. 20-22; Cor. 9. 27; and 10. 12; Phil. 2. 12; Apoc. 3. 11.

Why do you persist in closing your ears and mind to Jesus' teachings?

830 posted on 06/16/2020 1:20:26 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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