BIBLICAL BACKGROUND OF DOCTRINE OF REGENERATION

BIBLICAL BACKGROUND OF DOCTRINE OF REGENERATION

In Back of the Bible doctrine of Regeneration stand four assumptions:

 Man is dead spiritually.

Eph. 2:1, 5 "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins."

"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)"

 Man is not God's child spiritually.

John 8:44  "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."

1 John 3:10,14

"In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."

"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death."

Man is blind to spiritual things.

1 Cor. 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

 

Man of himself is totally unable to change his spiritual condition.

1 Cor. 2:9-10 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

                       These assumptions explain the tremendous urgency of our Lord's words: "Ye must be born again".

                      This background is essential for the proper understanding of the Bible doctrine of  Regeneration.

                      Those who deny any of these assumptions will not be able to accept Regeneration or understand it.