With the image of the Master to be born again mean that the Kingdom of God, although it is a reality in the Community, is closely related a change in personnel, a distancing from its radical past. In essence, self-denial to be a permanent attitude is permanent as the need for conversion. With the image of the "born again" Jesus mean that the Law Moses is not the man capable of forming the Kingdom of God should be the gift of new life which comes from the person and turns in his heart ...
How can we understand Jesus' answer is shocking: it says that it's useless. To enter the kingdom of God is needed to fully renovate the root, just like going through life with a new being. But come, go in life depends on us, but by God no prescription can afford to Nicodemus and Israel, which he represents, to convert, to gain access to the kingdom. The revival will be the sign of water in baptism, but will Holy Spirit ...
In Hebrew, spirit is said ruah , which also means breath (wind), Jesus took the occasion of the double meaning to add a practical example: the blows where it blows ... and the sound of it you listen, but do not know whence he comes and whence it goes ...
So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
John says that the truth "you", because only those who live in light, spoke words of light.
Everyone else, though sincere, that they do not communicate in the dark who
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