Yes, flesh is born of flesh, and
the new birth of God's divine eternal life within our immortal spirits (it
first being given to Adam)
is of God, the Holy Spirit, it being his own divine life.
Where did Jesus say anything about
the body of Christ, or
the one olive tree of God's people going all the way back to Abraham; i.e., the church (
ek-klesia, called-out assembly,
Ac 7:38) being the bride of Christ (
Eph 5:30-32), or
sharing in Christ's own eternal inheritance (
Ro 8:17), etc.?
Jesus was born, lived, preached and died under the Old Covenant. He did not give the full New Covenant revelation because so much of it depended on the cross at the end of his life. It is the apostles who completed the New Covenant revelation, and Jesus' teachings are to be understood in the light of that
Yes, flesh is born of flesh, and the new birth of God's divine eternal life within our immortal spirits (it first being given to Adam) is of God, the Holy Spirit, it being his own divine life.
Where did Jesus say anything about
the body of Christ, or
the one olive tree of God's people going all the way back to Abraham; i.e., the church (ek-klesia, called-out assembly, Ac 7:38) being the bride of Christ (Eph 5:30-32), or
sharing in Christ's own eternal inheritance (Ro 8:17), etc.?
Jesus was born, lived, preached and died under the Old Covenant. He did not give the full New Covenant revelation because so much of it depended on the cross at the end of his life. It is the apostles who completed the New Covenant revelation, and Jesus' teachings are to be understood in the light of that completed NT revelation.
Are
you like the MAJORIETY of Christians today
who believe they know more that the Writers of the New Testament?
Born of God...
Do you believe "You" know more than the Apostles Paul?
Do you believe that what Paul wrote in Acts 17:23-31 teaches us how to be born of GOD?
24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.
26 And He has made from one blood [Man] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.
30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
31 because He [God] has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
(Acts 17:24-31)
Do you believe Paul speaks the truth plainly without deceit and without manipulation?
Born of God...
Paul said,
"He
[God] has made from one blood [Man] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him"
"So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him" (Acts 17:27)
Do you believe
"You" know more than Jesus?
Jesus said,
17 If anyone wills to do His [God's] will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority
(John 7:17)
Jesus said,
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Two types of people
Type 1
24 “Therefore
whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Type 2
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and
does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
(Matthew 7:21-26)
Do you believe
"You" know more than Peter?
34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.
35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. 36 The
Word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all—
37 that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who
were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
39 And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree.
40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. 42 And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. 43 To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.”
44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
(Acts 10:34-44)
18 God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.
23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days.
(Acts 3:18-24)
The Truth to being Born of God are these words...
36 "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe [Obey] the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:36)
Jesus,
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Hebrews 5:7-9)
