Spiritual rebirth

Through living faith, you can become divinely God-conscious and experience spiritual rebirth as children of light and life. 193:0.3

True spiritual rebirth only comes after a complete disillusionment with selfish pursuits and a rejection of shallow religious practices. 195:9.7

Jesus within brings unity, transformation, and newness to all who receive him. 100:7.18

Impart advanced instruction only after men are born of the spirit in the kingdom. 141:6.4

To achieve stability and eternal goals in a changing world, one must experience spiritual rebirth and embrace the living God. 160:1.14

In the Urantia Book

Definition

• The conscious reception of the Spirit of Truth signifies a spiritual rebirth. 194:2.10
• Those who have espoused the Adjuster's leading will be brought back to their original spiritual levels by unerring forces. 34:6.4
• Spiritual rebirth is essential to deliverance from evil and necessary for entry into the kingdom of heaven, despite man's inherent evil tendencies being separate from sin or iniquity. (148:4.6,8)
• Spiritual rebirth is necessary to enter the kingdom of heaven, requiring a conscious effort and positive determination to enhance one's spiritual experience. 103:2.1 142:6.4-5 166:3.7 195:10.6
• Those who have received and recognized the indwelling of God have been born of the Spirit, becoming temples where the divine Spirit dominates and controls every phase of human experience. 34:6.7 155:6.3
• Are we willing to undergo the testing process of self-destruction and soul reconstruction to be born again and find true peace in the teachings of Jesus? 160:5.10
• Embracing spiritual rebirth requires a wholehearted choice of spirit guidance. 141:6.7

Conversion experience

• A sudden down-grasp of the Adjuster synchronizes with the consecrated purpose, marking a conversion beyond mere psychological involvement. 100:5.4
• True spiritual rebirth transcends emotional upheaval and mental conflict, requiring a total alignment of mind, spirit, and loyalty to divine ideals. 100:5.4-5 103:2.1-2
• Spiritual rebirth can be stormy or natural, experienced gradually or suddenly, like the Apostle Paul's conversion on the Damascus road or Gautama Siddhartha's enlightenment, with some believers progressing gradually without sudden conversion. 100:5.3 103:2.1
• Spiritual rebirth can manifest either gradually through growth or suddenly in a crisis, leading to a new orientation of personality and values. 65:8.6 100:2.8 100:5.3 129:4.2

Results in spiritual rebirth

• By becoming masters of ourselves and our desires through spiritual rebirth, we are saved by faith and sanctified to serve the eternal God with joyful self-control. (143:2.6,8)
• Become truth-coordinated to avoid narrow disintegration of truth and find salvation. 155:1.4
• The evidence of spiritual rebirth is found in sincere love for fellows, leading to peace, quietness, and assurance forever, as guided by the indwelling spirit of the heavenly Father and the teachings of the Prophet Isaiah. 142:5.4 146:3.6
• Through spiritual rebirth, we possess the power to overcome all doubt and find victory in our faith as children of God. 142:5.3
• Salvation is the gift of God to all who believe they are his sons, bearing the fruits of the spirit in loving service to all creatures, for the acceptance of the doctrine of the fatherhood of God implies the brotherhood of man. 193:1.2 193:2.2

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Revealed your Father in heaven 193:0.3 — Mt 5:16,45,48; Mt 6:1,9,14; Mt 6:26,32; Mt 7:11,21; Mt 10:32-33; Mt 11:25; Mt 12:50; Mt 15:13; Mt 16:17; Mt 18:10,14,19,35; Mt 23:9; Mk 11:25-26; Lk 10:21; Lk 11:2,13.
• You are sons of God on earth 193:0.3 — 1 Ch 22:10; Ps 2:7; Is 56:5; Mt 5:9,16,45; Lk 20:36; Jn 1:12-13; Jn 11:52; Acts 17:28-29; Ro 8:14-17,19,21; Ro 9:26; 2 Co 6:18; Ga 3:26; Ga 4:5-7; Eph 1:5; Phil 2:15; Heb 12:5-8; 1 Jn 3:1-2,10; 1 Jn 5:2; Rev 21:7; 2 Sam 7:14.
• Born of the spirit 193:0.3 — Jn 3:3-8.
• Children of light 193:0.3 — Lk 16:8; Jn 12:36; Eph 5:8; 1 Th 5:5.
• If Jesus within, new creature 100:7.18 — 2 Co 5:17.
• New birth 141:6.4 — Jn 3:1-12. *Do not strive with men*: 2 Ti 2:23-26.
• Baptism of the spirit 194:2.10 — Mt 3:11; Mt 28:19; Mk 1:8; Lk 3:16; Jn 1:32-33; Acts 1:5,8a; Acts 2:1-4,38; Acts 10:47; Acts 11:16.
• Return of spirit 34:6.4 — Ec 3:21; Ec 12:7.
• Spiritual “birth” day 103:2.1 — Jn 1:13; Jn 3:3-8.
• Jesus reply: be “born again” 142:6.4 — Jn 3:3.
• How “born again”? 142:6.4 — Jn 3:4.
• Must be born again of the spirit 166:3.7 — Jn 3:3-7; 1 P 1:23.
• Jesus knocks 166:3.7 — Rev 3:20-21.
• I am the door 166:3.7 — Jn 10:7,9.
• I am the new and living way 166:3.7 — Jn 14:6.
• Whosoever will may come 166:3.7 — Ps 50:15; Jl 2:32; Zec 13:9; Mt 7:24; Mt 10:32-33; Mt 12:50; Mt 16:24-25; Mk 3:35; Mk 8:34-35; Lk 6:47; Lk 9:23-24; Lk 12:8; Jn 3:15-16; Jn 4:13-14; Jn 11:25-26; Jn 12:46; Acts 2:21; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:26; Ro 9:33; Ro 10:13; 1 Jn 2:23; 1 Jn 4:15; 1 Jn 5:1; Rev 22:17b.
• You are temple; God dwells in you 34:6.7 — Lk 17:21; Ro 8:9-11; 1 Co 3:16-17; 1 Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16; 2 Ti 1:14; 1 Jn 4:12-15; Rev 21:3. *Spirit of God in man*: Job 32:8,18; Is 63:10-11; Ezk 37:14; Mt 10:20; Lk 17::21; Jn 17:21-23; Ro 8:9-11; 1 Co 3:16-17; 1 Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16; Ga 2:20; 1 Jn 3:24; 1 Jn 4:12-15; Rev 21:3.
• Jesus' “call”: be born of the spirit 155:6.3 — Jn 3:3,7; 1 P 1:23.
• Death unto life 155:6.3 — Jn 5:24; Ro 5:21; Ro 8:2.
• Darkness into light 155:6.3 — Is 9:2; Mt 4:16; Lk 1:79; Lk 11:35-36; Jn 3:19-21; Jn 8:12.
• Who would save life must lose it 160:5.10 — Mt 10:39; Mt 16:25; Mk 8:35; Lk 9:24; Lk 17:33; Jn 12:25.
• Not come to bring peace 160:5.10 — Mt 10:34; Lk 12:51.
• Paul's conversion 100:5.3 — Acts 9:1-9,20.
• When spirit poured out, peace will come 142:5.4 — Is 32:15-17. *Evidence of spirit: love*: Jn 13:35.
• God's spirit helps know sonship 146:3.6 — Ro 8:16. *Indwelling spirit confirms*: Ro 8:14. *Spirit of Truth*: Ezk 11:19; Ezk 18:31; Ezk 36:26-27; Jl 2:28-29; Lk 24:49; Jn 7:39; Jn 14:16-18,23,26; Jn 15:4,26; Jn 16:7-8,13-14; Jn 17:21-23; Acts 1:5,8a; Acts 2:1-4,16-18; Acts 2:33; 2 Co 13:5; Ga 2:20; Ga 4:6; Eph 1:13; Eph 4:30; 1 Jn 4:12-15.
• Spirit bears witness to spirit 142:5.3 — Ro 8:14-17; 1 Jn 5:6,8. *Overcoming doubt with faith*: 1 Jn 5:4.
• I am resurrection and life 193:1.2 — Jn 11:25.
• Spiritual birth 193:1.2 — Jn 3:3-7.
• By faith: eternal life 193:1.2 — Jn 3:15-16.
• All men are sons of God 193:1.2 — 1 Ch 22:10; Ps 2:7; Is 56:5; Mt 5:9,16,45; Lk 20:36; Jn 1:12-13; Jn 11:52; Acts 17:28-29; Ro 8:14-17,19,21; Ro 9:26; 2 Co 6:18; Ga 3:26; Ga 4:5-7; Eph 1:5; Phil 2:15; Heb 12:5-8; 1 Jn 3:1-2,10; 1 Jn 5:2; Rev 21:7; 2 Sam 7:14.

See also

• consecration of choice
• faith
• gospel
• kingdom of heaven
• salvation
• submission

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