What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

The Philip Papers, No. 13. What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? John 3:1–8, Douay-Rheims.

A ruler of the Jews comes to Jesus by night, certain of what he has seen and confident in what he knows. He is not wrong about Christ. He is simply not yet alive to Him. Jesus answers him with a single, staggering condition: unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

This paper follows Nicodemus from that rooftop conversation into the Church's oldest conviction about what this new birth actually is, traced through John's Gospel, the water and the Spirit, and the unbroken witness of the Fathers who received and handed on the practice of baptism, even for the smallest and newest among us.

The Philip Papers are a single road walked in twenty steps, the Road to Rome. The way is narrow, but just.

Format: Digital PDF, 15 pages, approx 5,900 words

Language: English

Author: M.F. Robb

Published by thephilippapers.com

A Cathedral of The Fourth production.