“Who were born not . . . of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13
The
recurring phrase “after its kind” in Genesis 1 represents a law of reproduction
that governs the whole realm of biological nature. It does not, however, govern
the realm of the Spirit. For generation after generation, human parents can beget
children after their kind, but one thing is certain: Christians cannot beget
Christians! Not even when both parents are Christians will the children born to
them automatically be Christians, no, not even in the first generation.
That
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit. It will take a fresh act of God every time to produce someone who is
truly a child of His.
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