Belief Causes Birth?
Jesus said that a person must be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God (John 3). Some churches teach that one must believe, or ask Jesus to come into their hearts, in order to be born again. Actually it’s the other way around. To use an analogy: If someone threw a life preserver (of salvation) to a dead man flouting in water, he couldn’t grab it (believe) unless life (the new birth) was first given him.