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Regeneration, The New Birth, Being "Born Again", The Work of the Holy SpiritRegeneration: a supernatural renovation of the dispositions which determine the moral purpose, and of the understanding in the apprehension of moral and spiritual truth, the whole resulting in a permanent and fundamental conversion in the actings of the whole man as to sin and holiness: the flesh and God. To such a change the human will is utterly inadequate and irrelevant, because the change goes back of the will. It is therefore a divine and almighty work of the Father and Son through the Holy Spirit, as Their Agent...the free agent chooses according to his moral nature, because his own moral nature decides how he shall view inducements. This character is, in the sinner, carnal. To make the conduct spiritual, the character must be renewed. - R.L. Dabney
The New Birth by Brian Schwertley
The term “born again” is known to most Americans. There has even been a president who claimed to be born again. Most evangelicals and fundamentalists like to refer to themselves as “born again” Christians. Yet these words have little or no meaning to many people.
Regeneration by Asahel Nettleton
The important and simple doctrine taught by John 1:12-13, is that those who receive Christ-who have power given them to become the sons of God and who believe on his name are born of God. In other words, every real Christian becomes such by a special exertion of Almighty power to change his heart.
Regeneration by A. A. Hodge (Revised by B. B. Warfield)
Regeneration (from Lat. re-, again + generare, beget) is a theological term used to express the initial stage of the change experienced by one who enters upon the Christian life.
Regeneration or The New Birth by Arthur W. Pink
Two things are absolutely essential in order to salvation: deliverance from the guilt and penalty of sin, and deliverance from the power and presence of sin.
Regeneration: from Jonathan Edwards: A Mini-Theology by John H. Gerstner
Regeneration or "efficacious grace" itself is characteristically decisive, immediate, and solely supernatural. This is the main difference between Calvinists (who affirm it) and Arminians (who deny it).
The Evidences of Regeneration by C.R. Vaughan
THE discussion of regeneration will be made sufficiently complete for the purposes of this little treatise by an exposition of its evidences.
A Practical View of Regeneration - Part I by Archibald Alexander
That human nature has lost that moral purity and perfection with which it was originally endued, is a truth which lies at the heart of the Christian religion.
A Practical View of Regeneration - Part II by Archibald Alexander
The question is sometimes asked, whether is regeneration an instantaneous or a gradual work? This is not a merely speculative question. If this is a gradual work, the soul may for some time, yea, for years, be hanging between life and death, and be in neither one state or nor the other, which is impossible.
A Practical View of Regeneration - Part III by Archibald Alexander
From what has been said we may deduce the following summary: 1. Regeneration is the commencement of spiritual life in a soul before dead in sin, by the omnipotent agency of God; and the exercises of this life are specifically different from all the exercises of an unregenerate heart...
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