258 The Faith of Our Fathers enmities," saith the Lord, "between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed; she shall crush thy head."335 Jesus, the seed of Mary, is the chosen one who was destined to crush the head of the infernal serpent. And "when the fulness of time was come God sent His Son, made of a woman, ... that He might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."336 Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, came to wash away the defilement from our souls and to restore us to that Divine friendship which we had lost by the sin of Adam. He is the second Adam, who came to repair the iniquity of the first. It was our Savior's privilege to prescribe the conditions on which our reconciliation with God was to be effected. Now He tells us in His Gospel that Baptism is the essential means established for washing away the stain of original sin and the door by which we find admittance into His Church, which may be called the second Eden. We must all submit to a new birth, or regeneration, before we can enter the kingdom of heaven. Water is the appropriate instrument of this new birth, as it indicates the interior cleansing of the soul; and the Holy Ghost, the Giver of spiritual life, is its Author. The Church teaches that Baptism is necessary for all, for infants as well as adults, and her doctrine rests on the following grounds: [269] Our Lord says to Nicodemus: "Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."337 These words embrace the whole human family, without regard to age or sex, as is evident from the original Greek text, for tic;, which is rendered man in our English translation, means any one — mankind in its broadest acceptation. 335 Gen. iii. 15. 336 Gal. iv. 4, 5. 337 John iii. 5.