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1 | New Birth - Event or Process? | 1 Pet 1:23 | kalos | 7559 | ||
New Birth - Event or Process? New Birth "Cleansing from sin that God gives to all who believe on his Son through the Holy Spirit. "It is absolutely necessary for a person to be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God. In the central passage in the New Testament about the new birth (John 3), Jesus tells Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council, that he will not enter the kingdom of God unless he is born anew. The alternation between singular and plural Greek pronouns in the passage shows that Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus both personally and representatively. The need for the new birth is not only true of Nicodemus, but of the entire Sanhedrin, all Jews, and, by extension, all people. ************************ "Some have considered the new birth to be a process a person experiences, even over a period of years. Such an interpretation is not congruent with the tense of the Greek verb in this passage . The aorist tense suggests that the new birth is an event rather than a process. Prior to a certain point in time, a person is not-born-again or regenerated; after that point, the person is. ************************ "The new birth is, then, a sovereign act of God by his Spirit in which the believer is cleansed from sin and given spiritual birth into God's household. It renews the believer's intellect, sensibility, and will to enable that person to enter the kingdom of God." Carl B. Hoch, Jr. Bibliography. L. L. Belleville, Trinity 1 (1980): 125-41; F. BŸchsel, TDNT, 1:665-75, 686-89; S. Charnock, The Works of Stephen Charnock, vol. 3; J. Dey, Encyclopedia of Biblical Theology, pp. 725-30; N. R. Gulley, ABD, 5:659-60; Z. C. Hodges, BSac 135 (1978): 206-20; A. Kretzer, Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 1:243-44; W. L. Kynes, Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, pp. 574-76; J. I. Packer, EDT, pp. 924-26; A. Ringwald, NIDNTT, 1:176-80; P. Toon, Born Again: A Biblical and Theological Study of Regeneration. Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by Walter A. Elwell. Published by Baker Books. a division of Baker Book House Company (http://www.bakerbooks.com/), Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bibliography Information Elwell, Walter A. "Entry for 'New Birth'". "Evangelical Dictionary of Theology". (http://www.biblestudytools.net/Dictionaries/BakerEvangelicalDictionary/). 1997. |
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2 | New Birth - Event or Process? | 1 Pet 1:23 | Makarios | 7987 | ||
John gives us glimpses of Nicodemus's changed character (compare 7:50,51; 19:39-42) after his encounter with Jesus that night! "'born again': The Greek word 'anothen' translated here as 'again' could also be rendered "from above". The birth that Jesus spoke of was either a new birth or a heavenly birth- or both. It seems that Jesus was speaking of a heavenly birth because He later used the analogy of the wind, coming from some unknown, heavenly source, to depict the spiritual birth. But Nicodemus clearly understood Jesus to be speaking of a second birth- being born again. Jesus explains this new or heavenly birth in 3:6-8, contrasting being born of the flesh with being born of the Spirit." Nelson's NKJV Study Bible, pg. 1763 |
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