Ronald Nolette
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In Bible prophecy, the 'sea' and the 'land' are actually synonymous with each other...
Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea. Daniel 7:3
‘The four great beasts are four kings that will rise from the earth. Daniel 7:17
In other words, the beasts rise from 'the sea and the earth'. Now, do you want to insist that Jesus is also saying, "no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the land and the Spirit."? Probably not. It should be no surprise to you that, in the Bible, the same metaphor can be used to represent to very distinct and different things. For example, spiritual circumcision refers to cutting off the flesh from the heart (Colossians 2:11), and yet Ezekiel speaks of the day God would give his people hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26). Two uses of the metaphor 'flesh' but which are entirely and completely in contradiction to each other when taken out of the context they are used in.
Sadly most english versions are weak in this aramaic. For sea and ground are not synonymous.
Sea is symbolic of gentiles while ground is symbolic of the world while they are cloise thery are also different.
but no I do not believe thatJesus meant that.
but I do noknow that when words are used symbolically- they are used that way throughout Scripture. So when seas or waters are used symbolically it is always gentiles. Water is used metaphorically for the word- but that is different than symbolically.
But now prove that water in John 3 is a metynomy, or used symbolically or metaphorically and not euphemistically.