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The Bible in the Light of Religious Science

by Ernest Holmes

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Contents - Ernest Holmes' Personal Preface - Foreword - The Bible Was Written by Human Beings - Spirit of God Moved - The Image of God - Mission of the Bible - Divine Presence - The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth - How God Forgives - The Divine Bounty - Transcending One's Mistakes - Thought Retards Or Quickens - Law of Circulation - Purpose of Religious Science - Concept of a Successful Man - When the Blind Lead the Blind - Who Would Save His Life Shall Lose It - Two Great Commandments - Word of Power - Love - Law of Correspondents - Renewing of the Mind - Divine Ideas - Endless Creation - The Mind That Jesus Used - Constant Prayer - "Quench Not the Spirit" - Evil Is Created by Man - Doers Of The Word - Law is No Respecter of Persons - Confession of Mistakes - Who is born of love is born of God, for God is Love.

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The New Birth

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus is referring to the heavenly birth which means being born into the knowledge of Truth. He refers to this as being born of water and Spirit.

The symbol of water is used to express the idea of a complete immersion in Spirit. As water flows in and around, so we are immersed in an everlasting Spirit which flows around, in and through us. To be immersed in water symbolizes our recognition that we are surrounded by pure Spirit. It is the outward sign of an inner conviction.

(page 124)

But water alone cannot make us completely clean or whole. We must be born of the Spirit, for,

"that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit."

Man partakes of the Divine Nature and the Divine Nature is man. The recognition of this is being born of the Spirit. But we cannot be born of the Spirit unless we do the will of the Spirit and the will of the Spirit is goodness, peace, mercy, justice and truth. It is conscious union with God.

The new birth comes not by observation nor by loud proclamation, but through an inner sense of reality. We cannot tell where this comes from if we look to outward things, as it proceeds from the innermost parts of our own being.

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