To be born of water

Will Wagers hyle at e-denton.com
Sat Sep 16 07:24:34 EDT 2000


As has been pointed out, there are two distinct stages in birth:

1. First, the water breaks, and the baby is born of water.

2. When the newborn takes it's first breath,  it is born of spirit.

Obviously, these *births* are the physical basis of subsequent metaphors.
Baptism, for example, is the recreation of this moment.

Chris Core writes:

>I also don't know of an idiom, but if it was a common Hebrew idiom, 
>it would fit
>with the statement "Born again". The second birth is of the spirit 
>so the birth that
>
>precedes it must be the natural birth otherwise actual first birth 
>is not being
>counted, or else the term "born again" doesn't refer to a second 
>birth but a third,
>but I see that as doubtful and the emphasis on being born of the Spirit.




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