Regeneration and Faith - Sun Feb 24, 2019 12:41 AM
I am sure this has aspect of my question has been brought up before. However, I have not found it.
On the issue of which comes first "regeneration" or "faith" I believe both Scripture and Reformed theology says regeneration precedes faith.
I also believe that words like "quickened", "regeneration" and "born again" mean the same thing.
However, something I have noticed that is quite common by Arminian's especially by those who are educated in the Greek say against the Reformed position is both the Greek and grammatical structure prove the Reformed position is false (I recently saw this used against an excellent article written by RC Sproul on this issue). They often try to show this by using these arguments going where Reformed readers like myself have very little knowledge of.
I am actually a little tired of not being able to have an answer to their arguments.
Does anyone know of any articles, blogs etc..., where these Arminian arguments are addressed?
Tom
On the issue of which comes first "regeneration" or "faith" I believe both Scripture and Reformed theology says regeneration precedes faith.
I also believe that words like "quickened", "regeneration" and "born again" mean the same thing.
However, something I have noticed that is quite common by Arminian's especially by those who are educated in the Greek say against the Reformed position is both the Greek and grammatical structure prove the Reformed position is false (I recently saw this used against an excellent article written by RC Sproul on this issue). They often try to show this by using these arguments going where Reformed readers like myself have very little knowledge of.
I am actually a little tired of not being able to have an answer to their arguments.
Does anyone know of any articles, blogs etc..., where these Arminian arguments are addressed?
Tom