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While the exact Greek noun for 'rebirth' or 'regeneration' (Ancient Greek: παλιγγενεσία, romanized: palingenesia) appears just twice in the New Testament (Matthew 19:28 [4] and Titus 3:5), [5] regeneration in Christianity is held to represent a wider theme of re-creation and spiritual rebirth, [6] including the concept of "being ...
[79] Samuel Storms writes that, "Calvinists insist that the sole cause of regeneration or being born again is the will of God. God first sovereignly and efficaciously regenerates, and only in consequence of that do we act. Therefore, the individual is passive in regeneration, neither preparing himself nor making himself receptive to what God ...
One of the earliest of the Church Fathers to enunciate clearly and unambiguously the doctrine of baptismal regeneration ("the idea that salvation happens at and by water baptism duly administered") was Cyprian (c. 200 – 258): "While he attributed all the saving energy to the grace of God, he considered the 'laver of saving water' the instrument of God that makes a person 'born again ...
Nicodemus seeks Jesus by night by Alexandre Bida (1875). Jesus' discourse with Nicodemus is related in John 3:1–21, [1] but not in the synoptic gospels. [2] For fear of the Jewish authorities a ruler in Israel, Nicodemus, one of the Pharisees, comes by night to see Jesus.
According to the Articles of Faith of the Church of the Nazarene, sanctification is a work of God after regeneration "which transforms believers into the likeness of Christ" and is made possible by "initial sanctification" (which occurs simultaneously with regeneration and justification), entire sanctification, and "the continued perfecting ...
Regeneration in the active sense, the regenerative activity of God, is only another name for the call: the efficacious call of God. And the connection between the calling in this sense (active regeneration) and regeneration in the passive sense is the same as that between the Father’s speaking and our learning from him (John 6:45), between ...
In the Gospel of Matthew [6] Jesus Christ is quoted in Greek (although his historical words most probably would have been Aramaic) using the word "παλιγγενεσία" (palingenesia) to describe the Last Judgment foreshadowing the event of the regeneration of a new world. [7]
"The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 3" (PDF). Cook, Flavel Smith (1882). Decision for Christ: counsel and encouragement for young people. Oxford University. OCLC 721101982. Adams, James E. (2010). "Decisional Regeneration" (PDF). Chapel Library.