The same is true when Jesus chided Nicodemus, who took himself to be a “teacher in Israel,” for not understanding the birth “from above”—the receiving of a superhuman kind of life from the God who is literally with us in surrounding space. To be born “from above,” in New Testament language, means to be interactively joined with a dynamic, unseen system of divine reality in the midst of which all of humanity moves about—whether it knows it or not And that, of course, is “The Kingdom Among Us.”
