Our natural prejudgment of reality is against God. To receive the truth of God requires that our “anti” bias be changed. The key work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration…
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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. Indeed, we…
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…
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…
“Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” — John in his Epistles. THE discussion of regeneration will…
Effectual calling, conversion, repentance, and regeneration were approximately synonymous terms for Edwards. An important statement in Original sin shows the identity of the last three terms. I put repentance and…
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. The one is secured…
The following short essay was originally published in Johnson’s Cyclopaedia, 1896. Regeneration (from Lat. re-, again + generare, beget) is a theological term used to express the initial stage of…
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of…
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…
