Consider the following:
An unregenerate person, a bastard, cannot be disobedient to his father, because he has no father.
An unregenerate person cannot be disobedient to Satan.
A person without the capacity or ability to understand cannot be deceived.
Therefore, this passage can only be speaking of the regenerate disobedient children of God.
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Buried with Christ into death, so that we might be raised to life. (Romans 6) |
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| Regeneration Born of Water Eating His flesh Live Forever Solely By Grace |
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; AND he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35) |
Conversion Born of Spirit Drinking His blood Hath Eternal Life By Faith & Works |
| Except a man be born of water AND of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5) |
Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son
Delivered (or removed) from one dominion and translated (or transfered, delivered) into another dominion
The word "translated" means to transpose, transfer, remove from one place to another; of change of situation or place. The word "translated" also suggests drawing to one’s self, to rescue, to deliver. This drawing is not an alluring, but means to cause to move in a particular direction by, or as if by, a pulling force.
Think about it, if you are going to rescue someone from a falling object, are you going to allure them from the danger, or are you going to grab them and pull them away with all your might? Likewise, at regeneration, God reaches down into the depths of darkness and lifts the person up and places him into the kingdom of Christ.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
According to this passage, at regeneration we are rescued from the dominion of darkness, being removed from its power and dominion, and transfered into the dominion and power of Christ.
Related passages:
John 6:44
Matthew 11:27
Luke 1:74
2 Corinthians 1:10
The word "translated" means to transpose, transfer, remove from one place to another; of change of situation or place. The word "translated" also suggests drawing to one’s self, to rescue, to deliver. This drawing is not an alluring, but means to cause to move in a particular direction by, or as if by, a pulling force.
Think about it, if you are going to rescue someone from a falling object, are you going to allure them from the danger, or are you going to grab them and pull them away with all your might? Likewise, at regeneration, God reaches down into the depths of darkness and lifts the person up and places him into the kingdom of Christ.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
According to this passage, at regeneration we are rescued from the dominion of darkness, being removed from its power and dominion, and transfered into the dominion and power of Christ.
Related passages:
John 6:44
Matthew 11:27
Luke 1:74
2 Corinthians 1:10
Is God restrained by time?
From the moment God created day and night, He has been restrained by time. He will remain restrained by time, until the last day, when He eventually destroys time. This is evident throughout scripture, but the most evident of these are found in the creation. God created in accordance with set periods of time, and He rested at a particular time. Furthermore, God waited on Noah for 120 days, and sent His Son in due time. If God is not restrained by time, He would not have waited, nor would He have sent Christ "in due time". Likewise, God has determined a particular day to be the last day and is the only one who knows the very minute that will occur. God has decreed that certain events will occur at certain times and is restrained by time, for He will not do them until the time decreed.
God certainly has a concept of time and exists in accordance with the time which He created. For God, during this created period of time, there is a yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This cannot be denied because God's own words make reference to such. In the beginning of time, God created the heavens and the earth. These events did not occur in the past, present, and future all at once. God's very own word says "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven".
No, His knowledge of the future is not limited, and He has been since eternity past, and will exist in eternity future, but He cannot traverse time while it exists. There is no scriptural support that He moves into the future, or back in time. If He could traverse time, then there would be multiple ME's. One for each second of time that I shall live. But there is only a single ME, and I only exist in this time.
God does however, control earths time by controlling the movement of the planet. Scripture reveals that He has stopped the movement of the sun and stars, moved the sun back and forth, but He has never altered time as such that time was added or lost universally.
God did create time and will eventually destroy time, and thus is not controlled by time in the sense that humans are. It is rather by His own decree that He is controlled by time. He has created time and is controlled by it, in the sense that He has decreed that certain things will occur at certain points in time. He is therefore restrained from making those events occur, until the time He has decreed.
God certainly has a concept of time and exists in accordance with the time which He created. For God, during this created period of time, there is a yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This cannot be denied because God's own words make reference to such. In the beginning of time, God created the heavens and the earth. These events did not occur in the past, present, and future all at once. God's very own word says "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven".
No, His knowledge of the future is not limited, and He has been since eternity past, and will exist in eternity future, but He cannot traverse time while it exists. There is no scriptural support that He moves into the future, or back in time. If He could traverse time, then there would be multiple ME's. One for each second of time that I shall live. But there is only a single ME, and I only exist in this time.
God does however, control earths time by controlling the movement of the planet. Scripture reveals that He has stopped the movement of the sun and stars, moved the sun back and forth, but He has never altered time as such that time was added or lost universally.
God did create time and will eventually destroy time, and thus is not controlled by time in the sense that humans are. It is rather by His own decree that He is controlled by time. He has created time and is controlled by it, in the sense that He has decreed that certain things will occur at certain points in time. He is therefore restrained from making those events occur, until the time He has decreed.
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.
I just happened to come across a question asked on another website concerning this passage.
I’m still a little confused about the meaning of part of this verse (John 3:5) “Except a man be born of water”… my Pastor said this means being born as in your original birth.
I would simply ask that you compare the following:
John 3:5 ... Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit ...
Titus 3:5 … by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
To be born of water is the same as being washed by regeneration. Likewise, to be born of the Spirit is the same as being renewed by the Spirit.
I’m still a little confused about the meaning of part of this verse (John 3:5) “Except a man be born of water”… my Pastor said this means being born as in your original birth.
I would simply ask that you compare the following:
John 3:5 ... Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit ...
Titus 3:5 … by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
To be born of water is the same as being washed by regeneration. Likewise, to be born of the Spirit is the same as being renewed by the Spirit.
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