“Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, begat us again for a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Stone 1:3).
“The doctrine of our regeneration, or the new birth in Jesus Christ, is one of the most fundamental doctrines of our holy religion” (George Whitefield).
- Regeneration is a supernatural renewal of the provisions that determine moral purpose and understanding in the apprehension of moral and spiritual truth.
- All of which results in a permanent and fundamental conversion in the actions of man as a whole.
- Both by sin and by holiness: God.
- For such a change.
- Is the human will absolutely inadequate and irrelevant?Is this [regeneration] a divine and almighty work of the Father and the Son by the Holy Spirit.
- As His Agent?(RLDabney).