"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
This is not about separate births. This is about being born "from above" (which the translators cannot escape reckoning at least as valid as "again".) This is about finding one's parentage in the soul-source interaction of the mystifying heaven and the mysterious miracle of Creation--the latter realm being ultimately unknown to humans ("If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not . . . ")
All things are mysteries to us. We are mysteries to us. We embrace the miraculous source of our creation (or we do not) in a ceaseless series of metaphors--the metaphor of parentage, for example, being used repeatedly by Jesus, and indeed he flings the concept about with abandon, treating it a lightly as it deserves.
What matters about concepts is that they can help lead us back to God, beneath whom are subsumed all concepts.
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