The concept of rebirth (or being born again
) is not a truism that lives best in dogmatics textbooks. The term is a graphic picture that every person can relate to, and with implications that everybody can relate to. Those who are born again have a radically different and infinitely wider view of what is real and possible than those who are still in the womb.
To be born again is a privilege and engenders excitement in the face of the new opportunities that characterize life outside the womb.
Life outside the womb of worldliness does not mean that the child of God has already entered a Paradise Restored. In this life the born-again Christian is on a journey to receiving his inheritance. On that journey he experiences life as a stranger, an exile, one out of step with the spiritually dead in the world around him. This is normal Christian experience (2 Timothy 3:12; 1 Peter 2:18–19).
3 Béni soit Dieu, le Père de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, qui, selon sa grande miséricorde, nous a régénérés, pour une espérance vivante, par la résurrection de Jésus-Christ d'entre les morts,