Tag: "Second birth"

tag name	Second birth	type:	Religion, general; Religions, Middle Eastern
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Second_birth
variations or mis-spellings	rebirth; born again
related tags	First life and second life; Resurrection; Spirit of faith
Inventory subject	Second birth
notes	See also: – Partial Inventory Browser
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... Such things have come to pass in the days of every Manifestation of God. Even as Jesus said: “Ye must be born again.”1 Again He saith: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”2 The purport of these words is that whosoever in every dispensation is born of the Spirit and is quickened by the breath of the Manifestation of Holiness, he verily is of those that have attained unto “life” and “resurrection” and have entered into the “paradise” of the love of God..." 1. John 3:7. 2. John 3:5–6 – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude), ¶125 (BH00002) "Existential rewards consist in the virtues and perfections that adorn the human reality. For example, man was immersed in darkness and becomes luminous; he was ignorant and becomes informed; he was heedless and becomes aware; he was asleep and is awakened; he was dead and is quickened to life; he was blind and begins to see; he was deaf and begins to hear; he was earthly and becomes heavenly; he was material and becomes spiritual. Through these rewards he is reborn in spirit, is created anew, and becomes the manifestation of the verse in the Gospel that says that the Apostles “were born, not of blood, nor of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”1—that is, they were delivered from the animal characteristics and qualities that are inherent to human nature, and acquired divine attributes, which are the outpouring grace of God. This is the true meaning of being born again..." 1. Cf. John 1:13. – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chapter 60: Immortality of the Spirit (AB00268)
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