Correction: Born Again has NOTHING to do with Water.
John 3:3-7 (HCSB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Jesus replied,“I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
[SUP]4 [/SUP] “But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Jesus answered, “I assure you:
Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
{NOT water baptism, ⇧ ⇩ but rather it is a reference to the breaking of water at natural birth.}
[SUP]6 [/SUP] Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh,
and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.⇦ "Born Again"
[SUP]7 [/SUP] Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.
Born Again, is the very moment the Holy Spirit enters your heart, bringing your once dead human spirit to eternal life. Which is part of GOD's free GIFT of Salvation through Faith. In that same instant, the Holy Spirit pours the Love of GOD into our hearts producing a desire to obey Him, and to submit to Him as LORD, which means MASTER. Water Baptism is then something that do out of that desire to obey HIM, that was produced by the LOVE of GOD that the Holy Spirit poured into our Hearts:
Romans 5:5 (NKJV)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
John 3:36 (NIV)
[SUP]36 [/SUP] Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
This is the Baptism that saves, the immersion of our eternally alive spirit into the spiritual body of Christ, and that too happened the instant the Holy Spirit came into our hearts.
1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (HCSB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body {NOT into water}—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
[SUP]14 [/SUP] So the body is not one part but many.
John 3:3-7 (HCSB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Jesus replied,“I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
[SUP]4 [/SUP] “But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Jesus answered, “I assure you:
Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
{NOT water baptism, ⇧ ⇩ but rather it is a reference to the breaking of water at natural birth.}
[SUP]6 [/SUP] Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh,
and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.⇦ "Born Again"
[SUP]7 [/SUP] Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.
Born Again, is the very moment the Holy Spirit enters your heart, bringing your once dead human spirit to eternal life. Which is part of GOD's free GIFT of Salvation through Faith. In that same instant, the Holy Spirit pours the Love of GOD into our hearts producing a desire to obey Him, and to submit to Him as LORD, which means MASTER. Water Baptism is then something that do out of that desire to obey HIM, that was produced by the LOVE of GOD that the Holy Spirit poured into our Hearts:
Romans 5:5 (NKJV)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
John 3:36 (NIV)
[SUP]36 [/SUP] Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
This is the Baptism that saves, the immersion of our eternally alive spirit into the spiritual body of Christ, and that too happened the instant the Holy Spirit came into our hearts.
1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (HCSB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body {NOT into water}—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
[SUP]14 [/SUP] So the body is not one part but many.