07-30-2008, 12:22 PM
Wilby, responding to your post #288:
John 1:1 - Is Jesus the Word? He is.
John 3 - how are we born again? by the Spirit. How? by looking on Jesus, made sin for us, just as the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness.
John 7:37-38 - Is Jesus the water of life? He is.
The Holy Spirit takes the water of the Word of God and cleanses our conscience, applying His blood in our stead; and by the power of the Holy Spirit we are born again, regenerated.
Christ is the Word, the Water of life; Christ alone has the cleansing power to wash us clean. Not murky baptismal waters. Don't drink that water. Drink Christ.
Wilby Wrote:
John 3:5
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Water is not the word--water is water!
How did John writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit identify the water to be?Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Water is not the word--water is water!
John 1:1 - Is Jesus the Word? He is.
John 3 - how are we born again? by the Spirit. How? by looking on Jesus, made sin for us, just as the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness.
John 7:37-38 - Is Jesus the water of life? He is.
The Holy Spirit takes the water of the Word of God and cleanses our conscience, applying His blood in our stead; and by the power of the Holy Spirit we are born again, regenerated.
Christ is the Word, the Water of life; Christ alone has the cleansing power to wash us clean. Not murky baptismal waters. Don't drink that water. Drink Christ.