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quietthinker
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The word regeneration can be applied to many topics. You will need to submit some details.
The word regeneration is mentioned twice, here are the two refernces
Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
The first of a few definition states (and this one fits best)
New birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation, regeneration
Hence renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better. The word often used to denote the restoration of a thing to its pristine state, its renovation, as a renewal or restoration of life after death
Which is somewhat reflective in this other context its mentioned in
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Titus 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
It means to be born-again from spiritual death to spiritual life.
Ritajanice
Born-Again
It means Born Again, our spirit becomes reborn, brought from death into life, by Gods Living testimony, His Living Holy Spirit..he bears witness to our spirit , Gods truth.
Stumpmaster
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Regeneration, not regenration. There are ways to correct spelling mistakes in thread titles and posts. In some ways regeneration is a corrective measure.
Ritajanice
Born-Again
Titus 3:5-7: He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Taken
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Regeneration is the same as Rebirth as revealed in Scripture Being Born Again.
Glory to God,
Taken
It means coming alive spiritually. Jesus called it being born again and it can only happen through the Holy spirit coming to live in us. It doesn't happen automatically we have to ask and repent - turn from our sin.
Thank you all for the insights the reason I ask is because I have not heard this term used in the way it was used in the discussion the person used it as something that happens after one is saved like a second baptism of the spirit but isn't that a renwal or something?
David in NJ
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When people correct me for misspelled words on here I usually give them MORE
David in NJ
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My youngest son is deaf, yet he can hear the words of God thru JESUS and the Bible
The Holy Spirit will BLESS you greatly - all you need to do is pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him to come into your heart and for Him to send the Holy Spirit to FILL you.
Even though you are blind you can still see thru the Bible on audio
Listen to the Gospel of John
ScottA
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"Regeneration" like many topics of scripture, is presented "as through a glass dimly"...meaning purposely obscured until revealed by the Holy Spirit.
In that less than clear presentation, it would first appear and seem to mean that our mortal bodies are regenerated, which is not so, and is only later clarified as our mortal bodies being planted like seeds that die and produce an all new spiritual body. This is the subject of being born again, which Jesus defined not as a new body of flesh and blood, but one born of the [spirit] of God.
Stumpmaster
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The following is from my favorite theologian, Jack Cottrell, and can be found in his book. The Faith Once For All: Bible Doctrine For Today (pp. 455-456). College Press Publishing Company, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
Regeneration is an instantaneous, onetime event that happens in the moment of conversion, the moment when a sinner passes from his lost state into the saved state. Viewed as to its cause, regeneration is a divine act, a work that God the Holy Spirit performs upon the sinful soul. Viewed as to its effect, regeneration is an inward change in the sinner’s very nature.
This is not a legal change, though such a change (justification) does occur at the same moment as regeneration. Nor is it simply a moral change, i.e., a voluntary change of mind and heart that the sinner himself accomplishes through an act of his own will as motivated by the gospel. Such a moral change (faith and repentance) occurs prior to regeneration and is a prerequisite for it, but it is not the same as regeneration and cannot of its own power produce regeneration. Rather, regeneration is a metaphysical change, a change that takes place within the very essence of the soul.
This does not mean, of course, that the soul’s essence is transformed into a different kind of stuff. It means simply that the damage sin inflicts upon the soul is repaired; it means that the sin-sickness that infects the soul is healed. Or rather, it means that the long process of healing and repair has begun. By way of analogy, a bodily sickness is healed first of all by an initial treatment, e.g., an injection or an operation, which is then followed by a period of recuperation and recovery. On the spiritual level the initial operation is the act of regeneration, and the period of recovery is sanctification.
To follow this analogy, in the act of regeneration God assumes the role of the Great Physician, rather than the role of Judge as in justification. Ezekiel 36:26 prophetically describes this work in terms of a heart-transplant operation: “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Here the “heart of stone” is the soul hardened and calcified by sin. It is removed and replaced by “a heart of flesh,” i.e., one that is soft and yielding to the will of God.
This event of regeneration is described in Rom 6:1-14 in terms of death and resurrection. Here Paul says that in the moment of baptism the sinner’s “old self,” i.e., the “heart of stone,” was crucified or put to death with Jesus (v. 6); in this moment we “died to sin” (v. 2). But this
death-event is immediately followed by the experience of resurrection and the infusion of new life (vv. 4-5), by virtue of which the sinner is now “alive from the dead” (v. 13) and able to “walk in newness of life” (v. 4). As the result of regeneration one is thus “dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (v. 11).
In Col 2:11-13 Paul describes the regeneration event in almost the same way, except the image of death is replaced with the image of spiritual circumcision: “In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ” (v. 11). This is equivalent to the “old self” dying with Christ or being crucified with Christ in Rom 6:6. (See Col 2:13, where spiritual death and spiritual uncircumcision are equivalent concepts.) It takes place as a result of “having been buried with Him in baptism,”1 and is followed by an act of resurrection: “In which [baptism] you were also raised up with Him” and in which “He made you alive together with Him” (vv. 12-13). See also Col 3:1.
In view of the centrality of Christ’s death and resurrection in the scheme of redemption, it is no accident that this specific act of salvation (i.e., regeneration) should itself have the character of death and resurrection. As we have seen already [pp. 280-281], Christ’s resurrection unleashes the power of life that destroys the curse of death in all its forms. This includes the power to give new life to souls that are dead in their trespasses and sins. Thus the language of resurrection—being made alive—is used in Scripture for the act of regeneration more than any other imagery. Besides Rom 6:1-14 and Col 2:11-13, we may cite Eph 2:5-6, which says that God “made us alive together with Christ . . . and raised us up with Him.” John also speaks of the Christian as having “passed out of death into life” (John 5:24; 1 John 3:14).
Other language and images are used that convey the same general concept of the beginning of new life. In John 3:3-8 Jesus speaks of regeneration as a new birth—being “born again” (v. 3); Peter says that God “has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Pet 1:3; see v. 23). An equally strong image depicting the new-life nature of regeneration is that of creation. Paul says that those who have been saved by grace are “God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:10). This refers not to the original creation of Genesis 1, but to the new creation of regeneration (2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15). To describe it as an act of creation marks regeneration not only as a time of new beginnings but also as an act that can be accomplished only by God. As applied to this event the term “regeneration” itself appears only in Titus 3:5, where it is used synonymously with “renewing.” In its basic meaning it is the practical equivalent of rebirth.
This is followed by sections dealing with the Cause of Regeneration and with the Result of Regeneration.
REGENERATION
The Nature of Regeneration
The Nature of Regeneration
Regeneration is an instantaneous, onetime event that happens in the moment of conversion, the moment when a sinner passes from his lost state into the saved state. Viewed as to its cause, regeneration is a divine act, a work that God the Holy Spirit performs upon the sinful soul. Viewed as to its effect, regeneration is an inward change in the sinner’s very nature.
This is not a legal change, though such a change (justification) does occur at the same moment as regeneration. Nor is it simply a moral change, i.e., a voluntary change of mind and heart that the sinner himself accomplishes through an act of his own will as motivated by the gospel. Such a moral change (faith and repentance) occurs prior to regeneration and is a prerequisite for it, but it is not the same as regeneration and cannot of its own power produce regeneration. Rather, regeneration is a metaphysical change, a change that takes place within the very essence of the soul.
This does not mean, of course, that the soul’s essence is transformed into a different kind of stuff. It means simply that the damage sin inflicts upon the soul is repaired; it means that the sin-sickness that infects the soul is healed. Or rather, it means that the long process of healing and repair has begun. By way of analogy, a bodily sickness is healed first of all by an initial treatment, e.g., an injection or an operation, which is then followed by a period of recuperation and recovery. On the spiritual level the initial operation is the act of regeneration, and the period of recovery is sanctification.
To follow this analogy, in the act of regeneration God assumes the role of the Great Physician, rather than the role of Judge as in justification. Ezekiel 36:26 prophetically describes this work in terms of a heart-transplant operation: “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Here the “heart of stone” is the soul hardened and calcified by sin. It is removed and replaced by “a heart of flesh,” i.e., one that is soft and yielding to the will of God.
This event of regeneration is described in Rom 6:1-14 in terms of death and resurrection. Here Paul says that in the moment of baptism the sinner’s “old self,” i.e., the “heart of stone,” was crucified or put to death with Jesus (v. 6); in this moment we “died to sin” (v. 2). But this
death-event is immediately followed by the experience of resurrection and the infusion of new life (vv. 4-5), by virtue of which the sinner is now “alive from the dead” (v. 13) and able to “walk in newness of life” (v. 4). As the result of regeneration one is thus “dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (v. 11).
In Col 2:11-13 Paul describes the regeneration event in almost the same way, except the image of death is replaced with the image of spiritual circumcision: “In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ” (v. 11). This is equivalent to the “old self” dying with Christ or being crucified with Christ in Rom 6:6. (See Col 2:13, where spiritual death and spiritual uncircumcision are equivalent concepts.) It takes place as a result of “having been buried with Him in baptism,”1 and is followed by an act of resurrection: “In which [baptism] you were also raised up with Him” and in which “He made you alive together with Him” (vv. 12-13). See also Col 3:1.
In view of the centrality of Christ’s death and resurrection in the scheme of redemption, it is no accident that this specific act of salvation (i.e., regeneration) should itself have the character of death and resurrection. As we have seen already [pp. 280-281], Christ’s resurrection unleashes the power of life that destroys the curse of death in all its forms. This includes the power to give new life to souls that are dead in their trespasses and sins. Thus the language of resurrection—being made alive—is used in Scripture for the act of regeneration more than any other imagery. Besides Rom 6:1-14 and Col 2:11-13, we may cite Eph 2:5-6, which says that God “made us alive together with Christ . . . and raised us up with Him.” John also speaks of the Christian as having “passed out of death into life” (John 5:24; 1 John 3:14).
Other language and images are used that convey the same general concept of the beginning of new life. In John 3:3-8 Jesus speaks of regeneration as a new birth—being “born again” (v. 3); Peter says that God “has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Pet 1:3; see v. 23). An equally strong image depicting the new-life nature of regeneration is that of creation. Paul says that those who have been saved by grace are “God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:10). This refers not to the original creation of Genesis 1, but to the new creation of regeneration (2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15). To describe it as an act of creation marks regeneration not only as a time of new beginnings but also as an act that can be accomplished only by God. As applied to this event the term “regeneration” itself appears only in Titus 3:5, where it is used synonymously with “renewing.” In its basic meaning it is the practical equivalent of rebirth.
This is followed by sections dealing with the Cause of Regeneration and with the Result of Regeneration.
Behold
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Here is how to understand "regeneration".
Initially.....Adam and Eve and God were "one"..= spiritually.
In other words they were in "spiritual union"... all together.
When Adam sinned, He Lost this for all of humanity.... .... = .He and Eve lost their spiritual union with God., and that continued upon every person born since the "fall of Adam".
Adam's Fall, is the Fall of us all..
Jesus died on The Cross, to undo this situation, for "ALL who will believe"... or as John 3:16 teaches "The World" .. every person, is offered this eternal restoration back into spiritual union with GOD..
= Jesus died for US so that by His Sacrifice.. """ ALL who will believe" may be restored to Eternal Spiritual Union with God, exactly as Adam and EVE had this, before they sinned and lost this spiritual union with God.
So, for us to return to ORIGINAL spiritual union with God, that Adam had before he sinned.. you must be "born again".... spiritually....
This is what Jesus is explaining when He says......."YOU MUST be born again".... and that is not by water "but by my SPIRIT sayeth the Lord"...
This means that God's Holy Spirit BIRTH's your spirit man into Eternal spiritual union with Himself.
that is "regeneration".. its the act of causing your spirit man to become joined to God, in Eternal spiritual union... =" BORN.....again."
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Behold
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