DAY 286
CHALLENGE
“People don’t need to be baptized, just born again.”
DEFENSE
Scripture teaches people are born again in baptism.
The phrase translated “born again” occurs in John 3:3, where Jesus tells Nicodemus, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (KJV). In Greek the phrase involves a pun. The word for “again” is anōthen, which can mean either “again” or “from above.” The point is one must receive a second birth and this birth must be from God.
Context reveals how the second birth occurs. Clarifying his initial statement, Jesus tells Nicodemus, “unless on…
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