John 3:3
John 3:33Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
The Watchtower limits the new birth to the 144,000 anointed class — the heavenly-hope remnant. The "great crowd" of Jehovah's Witnesses (the vast majority today) are taught that they have an earthly hope and do not need to be born again. Jesus' words to Nicodemus are read as a principle addressed to a future elite, not as a universal requirement. Because this verse is reserved for a special class, most Witnesses feel no personal urgency when they read it — "it does not apply to me."
Jesus does not say "unless the anointed class is born again." He says "unless SOMEONE (Greek tis — anyone) is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." The statement is universal. Read it gently with the Witness at the door and ask the obvious question: "If you have not been born again, by Jesus' own words you cannot see God's Kingdom — whether that Kingdom governs heaven or the earth is a separate debate. Have you personally been born again?" Pair with — "Everyone (pas) who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God" — and : "I write you these things that you may KNOW you have life everlasting." The two-class framework that makes someone else's verse collapses when you let the universal words do their universal work.