"Born again" isn't a one-time event; it's a continuous transformation. Accepting Jesus' forgiveness is just the start, for it unlocks a lifelong journey of becoming a new person, one constantly evolving closer to God's will.
I agree! And I really love your mind, Peter - you never approach any topic superficially. Your comments are consistently insightful and profound.
One of the challenges of reading the Bible is that it is part Divine words, part historical record of the Jewish people, part cultural traditions, and partly the ignorance of unscientific times when even the conception of babies was not really understood. Consequently, we interpret and understand the wisdom of the Bible in different ways and to different degrees at different times of our lives, depending on our own personal growth as human souls. If you are living your life as a person focused on the developing growth of wisdom in your soul, you will have new understanding continuously, and be continuously ‘reborn’.
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” - II Corinthians 3:18
I agree! And I really love your mind, Peter - you never approach any topic superficially. Your comments are consistently insightful and profound.
One of the challenges of reading the Bible is that it is part Divine words, part historical record of the Jewish people, part cultural traditions, and partly the ignorance of unscientific times when even the conception of babies was not really understood. Consequently, we interpret and understand the wisdom of the Bible in different ways and to different degrees at different times of our lives, depending on our own personal growth as human souls. If you are living your life as a person focused on the developing growth of wisdom in your soul, you will have new understanding continuously, and be continuously ‘reborn’.
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” - II Corinthians 3:18