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New Church adherents believe that "Regeneration" brings salvation. Regeneration is the process by which man is re-born, transitioning from the 'sense-oriented' sinful life he was born into, to a 'spiritual life', where man makes goodness and truth his highest love rather than worldly pleasures, [4] and proceeds to live a life of usefulness and ...
Regeneration, while sometimes perceived to be a step in the ordo salutis ('order of salvation'), is generally understood in Christian theology to be the objective work of God in a believer's life. Spiritually, it means that God brings a person to new life (that they are " born again ") from a previous state of separation from God and subjection ...
Ordo salutis has been defined as "a technical term of Protestant dogmatics to designate the consecutive steps in the work of the Holy Spirit in the appropriation of salvation". [1] Although within Christian theology there is a certain sense in which the phases of salvation are sequential, [ 2 ] some elements are understood to occur ...
Monergism is the view in Christian theology which holds that the Holy Spirit is the only agent that effects the regeneration of Christians.It is contrasted with synergism; the view that there is a cooperation between the divine and the human in the regeneration process.
Synergism comes from the Greek syn (with) and ergon (work) and refers to two or more sources working together. [1] In Christian theology, it describes the cooperative effort between God and humanity in the process of salvation. [2] [3] It implies a free human participation in salvation. [4]
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 ...
[36] The founder of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), D. S. Warner, explains "Holiness writers and teachers, as far as my knowledge extends, uniformly hold up a sinless life, as the true test and Bible standard of regeneration." [5] This doctrine follows in the footsteps of Wesley who wrote “If a believer wilfully sins, he casts away his ...
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 ...
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