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Is regeneration and conversion synonymous?

pinoybaptist

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I somewhat agree. I myself often make to following statement which I believe is true.

We have been saved (past tense) from the penalty of sin. - This refers to our justification

We are being saved (present on-going tense) from the power of sin - This refers to the process of sanctification

We yet shall be saved (future tense) from the presense of sin - This refers to glorification

Therefore we can say, I have been saved, I am being saved, and I yet shall be saved.

The first, the one you said referring to our justification, is all the work of Christ and the Triune God, our redemption through His blood, it covers all of God's redeemed from ages past to ages future in the whole wide world and among all of humanity. If the Spirit causes us to understand this and gives us the ability to have even a toehold's grasp of this truth, we understand what words "world", "all men", "all", and such mean, and I say this with no reflection on anyone's comprehension.

The second, the one that refers to sanctification, is where gospel salvation comes in, most especially in the theological and cultural context of the first church when the first believers came from sin and like errors of idolatry, paganism, promiscuity, and self-righteous religions which were all sin and from which the first Christians were to be instructed away from.
Consider the letters of Paul, Peter, John and James to the churches and their instructions and warnings to converts.

Practical justification also comes with their having put their faith in Christ and away from the false gods of their times, just as practical justification follows today's believer who turns away from dead religion which is sin.

The third, deliverance from the presence of sin, is what every born again, Scripture-instructed child of God hopes for. His coming again for His people to take them away into His Father's house.
 

Theopolis

New Member
our justification, is all the work of Christ

Gal 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
 

Winman

Active Member
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Did the PBs dominate this poll?:

http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=64501

regeneration precedes faith 13 46.43%

faith precedes regeneration 5 17.86%

faith and regeneration are
simultaneous 9 32.14%

other 1 3.57%

You think because you are in the majority that you are correct? The Lord taught that the majority of men will perish, and only a few, a minority would know the truth and be saved.

Matt 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
 
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