Two-in-One
TWO-IN-ONE You must be born again (John 3:3) Does the idea of a second birth seen impossible to you? If so, you are in good company. Nicodemus, to whom Jesus spoke these words, was a Hebrew scholar of the highest religious order in Jerusalem, yet he had never heard of such a concept. After all, it is completely contrary to the human way of thinking. How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? he asked Jesus. (John 3:4) To understand what Jesus was talking about, it is helpful to go back to the beginning of time, to the creation of Adam, the very first human: the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being Genesis 2:7) This passage is familiar to most of us; so familiar, in fact, that it is easy to miss an important fact. Adam, the forerunner of...