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again. His answer proves that he did not know how to exercise his spirit. He misunderstood the Lord's word. Then the Lord Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh. He seemed to be say ing to Nicodemus, "Regardless of the number of times you go back into your mother's womb and come out again, you still will be flesh. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. Nicodemus, there is no need for you to say that you can't go back to your mother's womb and be born a second time, for even if you could do it, you would still be the same. Even if you could be born anew in that way and be young again, after another sixty or seventy years you would be the same as you are now. You do not need that kind of rebirth." Nicodemus did not need another birth in time, but another birth in nature.
BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT
"Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, un less a man is born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5). Since Christians throughout the centuries have exercised their mentality instead of their spirit, they have formulated many different interpre tations of this verse. Fifty years ago I was taught that water in this verse denotes the Word and that