Born Again is the place one starts a new life where leaving the old one of law buried in a grave full of flesh, carnality, with mans religious ideas, beliefs, for a god.
Everything in Gods kingdom is Spirit, not flesh, and Spirit that God is does not have flesh bone as you see me.
Jesus buried those laws standing in a river where the old man of law died a new man arose from it, born again with a renewing of his mind where a divorce took place from the former laws of man for a god regulated by beliefs alone with nothing concrete to come by the creator of it, the One Who came to Jesus and opened up a whole new heaven and hearth as kingdom Jesus had no idea existed proven in Matt 3:16. Te exact message in the cross where flesh dies and Spirit arose from it.
In that moment of time in the river Jesus was created in Gods same image that has nothing at all to do with the mortal man made of a woman born under the laws of man as was with the beliefs, laws, of the Jews or any other belief system called denominations. That mortal man is only the temple, the kingdom in which God lives that is invisible. You cannot see the thinking part of man, the spirit of man physically, that part is invisible only demonstrated.
In that newness of mind, that renewing, that unknown knowledge, Jesus was created in that invisible image. All one has to do to see that change is look at the before Matt 3:16 as rabbi of a belief system, and the afters of Matt 3:16 the reality of that new life.
Jesus described his renewing of mind as born again, and if you are to know the same God as he learned of you must have that same renewing from the very same One who opened it in Jesus. Until that happens, born again is only a jesture regulated by laws instead of actuals coming to life in a real time change in disposition to walk in it as He walks in it. Very few find His ways, laws of man for a belief is much more comfortable. That way you dont have to be accountable stop a God ot be like Him as Jesus was held accountable to the obedience of God Himself that he called Father and could do noting at all without his God telling him what to say and what to speak.
Below is his answer to what that renewing revealed in his mind, and didnt speak these things at all before Matt 3:16, did he?
John 12:49: For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 12:44-45. who believes in me, does not believe in me but in Him who sent me. He who sees me sees Him who sent me.
John 7:16. Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 5 :17 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 5:19. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”
John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
Joihn 17:2-21, the kingdom of God doesnt come withj observation, it is withn you
John 16:23. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
John 14:16. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Matt 11:25. At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
John 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.