Comparing John And Nicodemus

A murder can be defined as ending the life of another person without their express permission or particular consent. Conversely, suicide is the desire to and act of murdering yourself. Perhaps rebirth, as discussed by John's Jesus with Nicodemus, is an amalgamation of the two. A man is firstly born, as implied by Jesus, only in the physical sense. Rebirth occurs when the idea of physicality is killed by the birth of spirituality. John conceives rebirth as transforming into something that isn't human in the visceral way.
To be reborn, according to John, means to completely change into something else or "anew". The idea of humanity is impermanence and the temporary existence that surrounds it. This finite time is an inevitability that is often …show more content…
The mortal soul must die because with the mortal comes a certain terribleness. Imagine a person receiving a temporary tattoo. The idea of temporary tattoos is so attractive because it can simply be washed away with soap and water. There is no real pondering on whether it will affect your perception or long term thoughts about it. People will flock to things that they can simply have and rid themselves of whenever they so choose. As opposed to this, there is of course, a needle made tattoo. The needles penetrate under the dermis and dye the lower layer which does not touch soap and water. It is a decision that is very often thought about, planned extensively, and sought after. It requires commitment. The mortal soul is like a temporary tattoo on the arm of humanity, while a tattoo is the mortal soul becoming immortal by committing to the body of God. To be immortal means to go on living, regardless of events that may take place. The buzzing, whirling sound of the needle machine is that quiet stillness after the water settles around the person soon to be born again. The tattoo can not be washed away and remains on the body, even after death. The mortal soul must die because there is particular recklessness that comes with being human. If a person will die anyway, what drives their empathy and willingness to be good? The death of the mortal soul means the death of impermanence, which is a paradox in itself. By death, a tangible thing …show more content…
John says, "that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." By this logic, what a living thing is born of is where they will go after death. Flesh will go back to flesh, and it is only natural that the flesh deteriorates with time. When the Spirit dies, well, there is no real death for a human born of the Spirit. To be born of the Spirit means to be in existence for eternity. Being reborn means to become permanent, therefore, everything a man does, creates, and impacts on the earthly world carries over to the heavenly world that they are able to be apart of. It follows that a material person lives on after their physical body has died. In this way, John writes that the flesh is born without a soul, without a light in their eyes or minds. Spiritually, what is being born again is the essence of the person.
This death of the mortal soul, and discovery of the immortal soul must happen because impermanent objects are just that. It makes sense that nobody born of flesh is able to ascend into the heavenly world because the heavenly world exists only for those who sought to breathe and act as if everything they did was permanent. The soul must be born again from Heaven in order to have all the qualifications to go back to Heaven. This process must happen because it gives a meaning and purpose for a human person to be good and act of that