"The Gospel of John"

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This paper explains that, as a metaphor of a spiritual conversion or the change in a person's belief system, the third chapter of "John" describes a religious man named Nicodemus questioning the godly authority of a spiritual man named Jesus Christ. The author points out that Nicodemus, as a Pharisee and a leader of the Jewish people, knew that even speaking to Jesus could cause problems for him; therefore, seeking answers to eternal life, Nicodemus desires to have a private conversation with this spiritual man in the late at night. The paper concludes that, for a person to have a true spiritual experience, a man or woman must be willing to take on a new life as if he or she knows nothing, the same as if they were born again.

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"In this metaphor of a spiritual conversion, Nicodemus feels the need to sneak away from his old friends and his old beliefs in search of something different. Carol Hulbert makes this observation "Not only is Nicodemus visiting at dark, he himself is in the dark." Nicodemus needs something more than the religiosity he has learned from the Pharisee's. "Nicodemus was raised a Jew observant to the Law and believed following the Mosaic Law made him acceptable to God." In this secret encounter, Nicodemus calls Jesus Rabi, which means teacher that comes from God. Nicodemus tells Jesus, he and the Pharisees know that Jesus is a teacher that comes from God because of all the miracles he and the Pharisees had witnessed."

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