Subject: eph 1:4-5 what is predestination, chosen |
Bible Note: Hi Edwin, Thank you for sharing a greater explanation of your view. I think, then, we are using words a little differently. When I say "regeneration", I am using it in the manner of the New Testament passages it is used in, such as: Titus 3:4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, Tit 3:5 not by works in righteousness which we had done, but according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Here, regeneration comes from "palingenesia", which is literally, "again-born". There is another word also sometimes translated as "regeneration", or "begotten again", which is "anagenesia", literally "upward-born", which also speaks of this re-birth. Love in Christ, Mark |