Well you make some good points (I guess), but you didn't really address the gist of what I was saying. I didn't say anything about a fetus doing anything. The point was that it had been conceived and was therefore alive, yet could die. Scriptures like the two that I listed (and there are many more) suggest that this can also happen in the spiritual realm. Why else is there a need to fight. Paul didn't tell Timothy to fight for a crown; he said fight for eternal life. How is the fight of faith not work?
Fighting for the faith is work. However I disagree about why we work.
I say we work for love of God not our own salvation.in a way we work to lead others to Christ so they may enjoy their life as children of God.
No matter what we do or not do we will still physically die. Your analogy makes no sense.you don't work to be alive and no amount of work will keep you from dying.
I think you are confused by mixing what it means to be born again and adopted into the family of God and when God gives us new heavenly bodies.
While we are alive in the flesh we are fetus, but when we physically die we can be born into the world to come, or is when we leave the womb.