While (lamely) attempting to get around the explicit biblical witness for baptismal regeneration, Beeke and Smalley, when addressing some objections to the “water baptism” reading of John 3:5, noted that:
Some respond to this argument by saying that “water” and “Spirit”
refer to natural birth and spiritual birth respectively. However, the fluids of
natural birth are better described as “blood” (1:13). Furthermore, the syntax
uses one verb and one preposition to describe not two births but one: literally
“born of water and Spirit” (gennēthē ex hydatos kai pneumatos). (Joel R.
Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology, 4 vols.
[Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2021], 3:426-27)
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