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Unbelievable that the author is dividing the human race into two human races without defining the terms. Is twice-born a movie, a singing group or Hindu social system?
I presume that he meant Baptism like the Sacrament initiated by Jesus in the Jordan that forgives original and actual sin.
Apparently the twice-born are the good guys and they can’t reconcile with or influence the bad guys.
We are all sinners (both groups) and as human beings made in the likeness of God. We have free will to either follow God’s will or not. And we often fail (sin) as indivduals not as a bad group. Some may practice their own religious belief or intrepretation and ignore God’s word and teachings. Each indivdual makes decisions to be moral or immoral and we find out when we die as we are judged.
The purpose and goal of the Church is to bring human beings to follow God’s will and to salvation.
The author’s statement: “The modern effort to bring peace between these two espirits is not only futile but contrary to the moral laws of the universe.”
We need to endure and follow Christ’s path and live by Jesus’s two great commandments. God’s Truth will prevail. Our role is to spread the Good News and by example bring as many as we can to God.
John 3
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Excluding those who do not know or who reject the Christ of the Bible, we have two groups left:
o - Regenerated and justified believer-disciple-bondslave-priests (twice-born) of The Christ of the Bible, with the gospel of salvation by faith alone, and led/filled/sanctified by the Holy Ghost of the Bible, forever.
o - Unregenerated "believers" = Tozer's "once-born" religionists, who accept another Christ of the same kind (allos), with another spirit (heteros)of a different kind, and with another gospel (heteros) of a different kind in which salvation has four inseparable features: (a) seeking after God; (b) a second chance after death; (c) earning one's way to heaven (works + "faith"); and (d) works of supererogation (adding to and improving the God-man's salvific works).
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2nd time I bumped into an outstanding timely piece by A W Tozer today. Must be Providence.
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