Regeneration and Rebirth – Part 2

Index Total depravity of the flesh Continuing from Part 1, the flesh generates desires only on the basis of pleasure and pain to itself, namely the body made of dust. Accordingly, it has desires of the flesh (that which physically and empirically gives pleasure or reduces pain), desires of the eye (that which can mentally…Read more Regeneration and Rebirth – Part 2

Regeneration and Rebirth – Part 1

Index But hasn't Christian tradition long held an absolute correlation between being regenerated and being assuredly saved? Even going by the Master Scientist's demonstration, the distinction between God's working and not working in man was always most clearly seen in His supernatural work of regeneration - if this is now believed to be possible for…Read more Regeneration and Rebirth – Part 1

Conditional Regeneration of the non-elect

Index Can the non-elect really be regenerated - be given a new heart and receive the Holy Spirit and yet fall away from God's mercy? Why, yes. And this explains the infamous stumbling block to the calvinists - Hebrews 6 and 10. Those passages about falling away and rendering it impossible to be renewed again…Read more Conditional Regeneration of the non-elect

Reconciliation of Calvinism and Arminianism

• IntroductionWhat is Calvinism and Arminianism      • Common Ground      • The Origins      • God's Sovereignty vs Man's Responsibility      • Tying in Election and Predestination• The Reconciliation      • Principles of Interpretation      • The fallacy of parallelism• To the Calvinist      • Romans 9           • 2 Key Observations     …Read more Reconciliation of Calvinism and Arminianism