Disclaimer. I just want to say I don’t write to convince people or to change people’s minds. I write what Holy Spirit is revealing to me. If you don’t agree with it that’s okay. I would encourage you to do your own research and not trust what you’ve always been taught. There is a possibility that what you’ve been taught maybe incorrect. I am learning more and more that the Bible is very complex and you have to dig in to the words in the Hebrew and the Greek.
I believe I can honestly say the first time I encountered Jesus I wasn’t quote “saved” but I saw him, I heard him. On January 1st 2002 I became aware of who he was. I was able to see him. As I continue to be in John 1 and Colossians 1 John 3 in 1st Peter 1:3 I am beginning to see things in a whole new different light.
John 3:3 (ESV) 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
When you look up the word born in the Greek and John 3.3g1080. γεννάω gennaō;
metaph.
to engender, cause to arise, excitein a Jewish sense,
of one who brings others over to his way of life,
to convert someone of God making Christ his son.
of God making men his sons through faith in Christ’s
Second word again in Greek g0509. ἄνωθεν anōthen;
from above, from a higher place
of things which come from heaven or God
from the first, from the beginning, from the very first
anew, over again
Third word “see” g3708. ὁράω horaō;
to see with the mind, to perceive, know
And then there is Peter and what does he say we have been born again through the resurrection. I didn’t say that Peter said that. This doesn’t mean you didn’t have a Holy Spirit experience. We’re talking what Jesus did for us. So I have two translations below the ESV and the mirror translation.
1 Peter 1:3 (ESV)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1.3 Let us 1celebrate the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with articulate acclaim. According to his matchless mercy and tender compassions, he 2birthed us again when Jesus was raised from the dead. In him, we were rebooted to live the authentic life of our design; while 3participating in a living hope, witnessing the Father’s 4expectation of the ages unfold in us. (The word, 1eulogetos, means to brag, to bless, to speak well of. Jesus reminds Nicodemus that we are born anouthen, from above. [John 3:3, and John 3:13] No one can fully engage in heaven’s perspective, unless one’s heavenly origin is realized. The Son of man declares mankind’s co-genesis from above and now through our joint resurrection, we are reconnected again to our original identity as sons. The word 2anagennao, from ana, upward, [reconnecting with anouthen – John 3:3 – from above, where we came from in the first place]; and gennao, to regenerate, to give birth. As much as his death brought dramatic closure to our futile and failed attempts to justify and define ourselves, our co-resurrection rebooted the original blueprint of our Maker’s image and likeness in us. – The mystery of the ages is unveiled. Christ in us. The verb, ζωσαν tzoosan from ζάω tzaō is a Present Active Participle, being alive to participate and witness 3”a living hope” – ελπιδα elpida, the expectation of the ages concluding in life. Your life is the Father’s dream come true. See Colossians 1:27 )
Matthew 6.6 