“Who were born not . .
. of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13
The recurring phrase
“after its kind” in Genesis 1 represents a law of reproduction that governs the
whole realm of biological nature. It does not, however, govern the realm of the
Spirit.
For generation after
generation, human parents can beget children after their kind, but one thing is
certain: Christians cannot beget Christians! Not even when both parents are
Christians will the children born to them automatically be Christians, no, not
even in the first generation.
That which is born of
the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. It will
take a fresh act of God every time to produce someone who is truly a child of
his.
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