Some folks think that Jesus was telling Nicodemus(an elderly man) that he had to be be born of his mother to be saved.
This idea is moronic, realizing the essentiality of water baptism by the Apostles to be saved.
There is NO new birth unless the old man is dead and buried.....
Romans 6
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? (if we are NOT baptized, we are not baptized into His death)
4
Therefore we are
buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(if we are not baptized, we are not buried with Him)
5 For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
(if we are not baptized, we are not planted together with him, therefore not able to be resurrected together in His likeness)
6 Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
(if we are not baptized, we are not crucified with Him, therefore we are serving sin)
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(if we are not baptized, we are not dead, and therefore bound by sin)
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