{"id":4299,"date":"2009-01-26T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:46:10","slug":"you-must-be-born-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/you-must-be-born-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You must be born again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intrigued <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/peterrollins.net\/blog\/?p=134\">Peter Rollins&#8217; post<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/ikonconvertable-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"ikonconvertable\" title=\"ikonconvertable\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/ikonconvertable-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/ikonconvertable.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned here before that I think there may be something more than just a simple prayer or 4 spiritual laws. <\/p>\n<p>When I hear &#8220;You must be born again&#8221; it really does sound like a new creation. It really does sound like you become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/politics\/the-old-becomes-new\/\">pacifistic because you&#8217;re a violent son of a gun<\/a>, you <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reflections\/verse-quote-of-the-day\/one-body-one-flesh-one-new-humanity\/\">build bridges towards a new humanity<\/span> rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/3223848259\/\">building walls<\/a> to further divide and you throw off the old wine skins in place of new fresh wine and wine skins.<\/p>\n<p>It may not mean entering the womb again physically, but I think it has a lot to do with dying to ourselves and giving, loving and serving others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrigued Peter Rollins&#8217; post. I&#8217;ve mentioned here before that I think there may be something more than just a simple prayer or 4 spiritual laws. When I hear &#8220;You must be born again&#8221; it really does sound like a new creation. It really does sound like you become a pacifistic because you&#8217;re a violent son &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/you-must-be-born-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;You must be born again&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[1593,1085,1824,1805],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-born-again","tag-new-humanity","tag-saved","tag-wineskins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-17l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11271,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions\/11271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}