Can you explain the words of our Lord to Nicodemus–“Except a man be born of water, and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God?” `John 3:5`.
The Jewish nation was a consecrated nation, a covenant people. They were all baptized into Moses in the sea and in the cloud when they left Egypt. God accepted them in Moses, the mediator of their covenant at Mt. Sinai but, at the time [...]