Mike,

You have shown, in your recent letter, and also by a number of others that you have written, the specific connection of the term, "born again", with the Jews.

And why the terminology is found in the gospels and the general letters to the circumcision, rather than in Paul's letters to the churches.

I was wondering if you were showing in this recent letter, that only the nation of Israel can be born again?

(at least that is what I thought you wrote, and if I misunderstood, I'm sorry)

If that is the case, then cannot individual Jews be born again, before the nation is born again?

In the general letters to the circumcision, there seems to be a few scriptures that kind of sound like they are talking about individual Jews, and groups of Jews, born again before the nation will be:

James:

James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Peter:

I Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

I Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

John:

I John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

I John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

I John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

  4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

  18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

James wrote to the Jewish believers: "begat he us".

Peter wrote to the Jewish believers: "begotten us again", "Being born again".

John wrote: "born of him", "born of God", "begotten of him", "begotten of God".

So were individual Jews born again back then?

Were there groups of born again Jews, back then, ministered to by the apostles to the circumcision?

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