Within Christendom the doctrine of "being Born Again" is a new doctrine that came through Yahushua in John chapter 3. You remember the dialogue Yahushua had with Nicodemus a Teacher of Israel..."except a man be born again he can not see the Kingdom of GOD". Nicodemus replied "how can these things be".
It is the reply of Yahushua in John 3:10 that is so, so powerful. HE said " art thou a Teacher of Israel and you don't know these things"! To put it another way, " you are a teacher of Torah and you should know these things (the Born Again doctrine). But how could Nicodemus have known this if Christendom teaches us that it is a New Testament doctrine which first appears in John 3? Ecclesiastes 1:9c says "there is no new thing under the sun". In essence what has been will be. It is there if we look for it.
Se'lah
Born Again is akin to having a circumcised heart. A heart that has submitted to following YHVH and HIS instructions (Torah) and accepting the Messiah Yahushua (our Living Torah). It calls for a transformation from a heart of stone (stubborn and contrary to GOD's Laws) to a heart of flesh (pulsating with trusting faithfulness in HIS love and Living Torah).
Deuteronomy 10:16 says "circumcise the foreskin of your heart and don't be stiff-necked no longer". What is to be circumcised? The heart! Also within this text stiff-necked is akin to unbelief; which is a lack of trusting faith in GOD.
In essence Yahushua was saying to Nicodemus...as a teacher of Torah you should know the doctrine of being Born Again because it is the Torah doctrine of circumcision of the heart"!
Colossians 2:11 says "you have been circumcised with a circumcision made without hands"
School of Thoughts Question: Have you been circumcised in the heart from having a heart of stone (stubborn and contrary to GOD's Laws) to a heart
of flesh (pulsating with trusting faithfulness in HIS love and Living Torah)?
Se'lah
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