"God... Who desires all men
to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
1 TIMOTHY 2:4
Here we see one will of God with two expressions - a gate and a
path. We enter the gate in a moment, but we walk the path over
time. We are saved in a moment, but we come to the full-knowledge
(epignosis) of Christ over time. So John 3:3 is not telling us
about our ending, but our beginning. Birth is the beginning of
Life, not the goal of Life. The goal in view here is not being
born-again, but entering the Kingdom.
Jesus does not just say, "You must be born again." If He did then
we might be correct in saying that is all there is to it. But Jesus
says, "Unless you are born again, you cannot see or enter into the
Kingdom of God." It is clear that the Kingdom is what we are trying
to gain entrance into, and while being born again is the gate, the
ultimate destination of the Kingdom of God is at the end of the
path.
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