{"id":3752,"date":"2013-06-10T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","slug":"the-gospel-of-the-new-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3752","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel Of The New Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse from John 3:1-3 and <strong><em>the gospel of the new birth<\/em><\/strong>. In our text a very religious man by the name of Nicodemus comes to Jesus to question Him in verse two on whether He is the God-man. Our Lord never answers his question but instead tells him unless he is born again he will never see the kingdom of God. The phrase born-again is better understood when the phrase is studied in the original languages. The phrase speaks not of an earthly birth after the conception between a male and female but the phrase means being born from above. It is the creation or spiritual birth that is conceived in another world causes a new creation or spiritual birth\u00a0in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse from John 3:1-3 and the gospel of the new birth. In our text a very religious man by the name of Nicodemus comes to Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}