https://spiritualfamily.net/stream/likes/88679 https://spiritualfamily.net/wall/owner/admin/88679#elgg-object-88679 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:21:57 -0400 https://spiritualfamily.net/wall/owner/admin/88679#elgg-object-88679 Religion is functional in the human mind and has been realized in experience prior to its appearance in human consciousness. A child has been in existence about nine months before it experiences birth. But the "birth" of religion is not sudden; it is rather a gradual emergence. Nevertheless, sooner or later there is a "birth day." You do not enter the kingdom of heaven unless you have been "born again" -- born of the Spirit. Many spiritual births are accompanied by much anguish of spirit and marked psychological perturbations, as many physical births are characterized by a "stormy labor" and other abnormalities of "delivery. 103:2.1
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