The New birth Of The Spirit is the eternal life of God?..not biblical.
The Spirit in us is what gives us life.
Romans 8:10-11 (EWEB) 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the {Spirit of Christ}, he is not his. 10 If Christ is IN YOU, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive [regeneration] because of righteousness.
How do you possess that eternal life by faith..do you mean your faith?
That is what Lord Jesus said.
John 5:24 (WEB) 24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."
Faith is a gift from God a manifestation of the Spirit...human faith is no faith at all....you need Supernatural faith from God...Spirit gives birth to spirit.
The Spirit indwells us to give us life by faith (John 7:37-39; Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 3:2; Galatians 3:14; Acts 2:38)
John 7:37-38 (WEB) 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive.
Galatians 3:2 (NIV) 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?
Galatians 3:14 (NIV) 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Ephesians 1:13 (WEB) In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit
You don’t become Born Again in the intellect..we are Born of the Spirit ...no one can explain how God births our spirit into his...as it’s a Living supernatural rebirth..
A true faith by which we receive the Spirit is always accompanied by repentance, and is manifested in obedience - a commitment to obey Lord Jesus.
Acts 2:38 (WEB) 38 Peter said to them, “Repent (change of mind and purpose), and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 5:32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
John 14:15-17 (Young’s Literal Translation)15 `If you love me, keep my commands, 16 and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age; 17 the Spirit of truth
John 14:21 (WEB) 21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.
John 14:23 (WEB) 23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
After hearing...I see that very differently...
Hearing comes as we are being supernaturally reborn..Spirit gives birth to spirit , the Spirit testifies with our spirit that we are Gods children as he’s indwelling us and gifting us HIS Faith to believe, which is a manifestation of the Spirit.
Only by faith.
Keep in mind that we are children of God by faith.
Galatians 3:26 (WEB) For you are all children of God, {{through faith}} in Christ Jesus.
Regeneration is to receive God’s Spirit AFTER a person believes and becomes a child of God:
Galatians 4:6 (WEB) And because you are children [which is by faith: Galatians 3:26], God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
We all initially believe, in Jesus, which we must do, before Spirit gives birth to spirit...that’s the part that only God can do...
One can’t believe in Jesus without God given Faith, then one believes, because the have been Born Of The Spirit.
Without the witness “ The Holy Spirit “ whom we receive when we become Born Again, we have become Born Again of imperishable/ incorruptible seed.....that is Gods Living seed that we receive into our heart...only God can open our heart to receive His Spirit....
God says we must be Born Again, after that supernatural event, you never stop hearing from God, because we are His “ Spiritual Children”....we then start to grow and mature in the Spirit ..as his word says, without His Spirit we are none of His...
The Spirit indwelling us is a supernatural event, and is by faith.
When the Word of God is heard, the Spirit is active to convict, but that is not being born again, rather, by the Word and Spirit we are drawn to Christ, but many resist the Spirit and the Word.
Acts 7:51-53 (WEB) 51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. 52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”