Joe,

I am appreciating your comments, which seem to fit the scriptural data well. You mentioned a weakness of traducianism regarding regeneration. While I am in full agreement with you, I would appreciate your elaborating this aspect of the two systems. Specifically, would a creationist say that after regeneration a newly created nature exists, and would a traducianist say the old nature is merely re-shaped. (I'm thinking of Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast: "There must be something there that wasn't there before" versus Maria in The Sound of Music: "Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could.")

In Christ,
Paul S