Mat 19:28 Truly I tell you, in the r, when
Tit 3:5 the washing of the ry and for the renewal
Regeneration (gr. palinguenesía, “rebirth”, “regeneration”). Expression used: 1. For the new birth that accompanies conversion (Titus 3:5). 2. For the renewal of the world on the occasion of the coming of Christ (Mat 19:28).
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
(gr., paligguenesia, birth). Regeneration has as its basic idea to be born again or to be restored. Although the word is actually used only twice in the NT (Mat 19:28; Tit 3:5), many synonymous passages suggest its basic meaning. Related terms are born again (Joh 3:3, Joh 3:5, Joh 3:7), born of God (Joh 1:13; 1Jo 3:9), give life (Eph 2:1, Eph 2:5 ), and renewal (Rom 12:2; Tit 3:5). Regeneration is the spiritual change wrought in the hearts of people in which their inherent sinful nature is changed and by which they are enabled to respond to God in faith.
Regeneration is, therefore, an act of God through the immediate agency of the Holy Spirit operative in the human being (Col 2:13), originating in him a new dimension of moral life, a resurrection to new life in Christ. . This new life is not merely a neutral state resulting from the forgiveness of sin, but an implantation of the righteousness of Christ in the human, by which he gives life (Joh 5:21), is begotten (1Jo 5:1) , made a new creature (2Co 5:17), he receives a new life (Rom 6:4) and the divine nature (2Pe 1:4).
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(to be begotten again, to be born again).
Joh 3:3-7, Tit 3:5, Matt 19:28.
It is the spiritual change that occurs in the heart of man by the work and grace of the Holy Spirit, by which the sinful nature is transformed, and can respond by faith to God, living according to his will.
It encompasses the man or woman in its entirety, as it renews their nature, alters the disposition that governs them, illuminates their mind and frees their will to be able to do good.
It is obtained by the Redemption of Christ, free, by faith, in his Church. See “Redemption.”
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
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Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
With this word, Matthew alludes to a future time (†œAssuredly, I say to you that in the r., when the Son of Man sits on the throne of his glory…† ), when God will complete his work in history and will create “new heavens and a new earth” (2Pe 3:13). This has already begun to take place in people who have believed the gospel (†œ… by the washing of the r. and by the renewing of the Holy Spirit† ). The Greek word is palingenesia.
This old creation of God is going to be replaced by a new one. That is “the creation’s earnest desire” for “the revealing of the sons of God” (Rom 8:19). Although this is part of the eschatological hope, it is important to understand that the process has already begun with the new birth of those who will be the inhabitants of the “new heavens and new earth”. That is why they are said to be “a new creation” (2Co 5:17) and “a new creation” (Gal 6:15). God purposed “to create for himself…one new man” (Eph 2:15). he “gave us new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1Pe 1:3).
These facts are the fulfillment of promises that were made in the OT, when God said: “I will put my law in their minds, and I will write it on their hearts” (Jer 31:33). The instrument for this is the Holy Spirit (“And after this I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh”) and the word of God (“…being born again…by the word of God†). That is why the Lord Jesus spoke to “Nicodemus about being born “of water and of the Spirit” (Joh 3:5).
It is certainly a mystery how this occurs in human experience (“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit† ). Above all, when we think that through the r. we become “partakers of the divine nature” (2Pe 1:4). What is not a mystery, however, is the visible result that occurs in human beings who go through this blessed experience. Their lives are changed, their temperaments modified, their interests are others, linked to those of God, and piety is produced in them.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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see, CONVERSION, WATER, BAPTISM, WASHING
vet, (Gr. “palingenesia”). Regeneration or new birth is the change of nature produced by the Holy Spirit in man, to whom he communicates a new life. Justification changes the situation of man before God: he is declared just, and no longer considered as a sinner; regeneration transforms his moral and spiritual being. The former is necessary because of his guilt; the second, because of his corruption. The natural man is dead in his trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1). He cannot receive or know the things of the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:14). He can neither see the Kingdom of God nor enter it (Jn. 3:3, 5). For this, it is necessary that he be born again, not of the flesh, but of God (Jn. 3: 6-8). John insists on the fact that “everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God” (1 Jn. 5:1); furthermore, he is no longer a son of the devil, but of God (1 Jn. 3: 8-10); having passed from death to life, he can love his brothers (1 Jn. 3:14; 4:7). The Lord creates in him a new man (Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:9-10); it makes him a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17), giving him a new nature. The believer is thus spiritually resurrected with Christ, who lives in Him by the Spirit, allowing him to live for his glory (Rom. 6: 4-11; 8: 9; Gal. 5:16, 22-25). The factors of regeneration, as given in the Scriptures, are as follows: (a) The living and abiding Word of God acts in many as a seed of life (1 Pet. 1:23; cf. Rom. 10: 17). (b) The miraculous work of the Holy Spirit resurrects us spiritually (Titus 3:5; Jn 3:5-8). This work is instantaneous, like physical birth, even if the conversion (which is its result) is less so (see CONVERSION). (c) Having received the Word of God and accepted the convicting work of the Holy Spirit, faith is placed wholeheartedly in Jesus Christ. From there, he “has eternal life; and he will not come into judgment, but he has passed from death to life” (Jn. 5:24). Baptismal regeneration is the teaching of the Church of Rome and of those confessions that participate in its ritualistic-sacramental conception. According to this teaching, baptism is the effective cause of regeneration in a miraculous way, and children who die without baptism cannot enter Paradise. It is in this way that the passage of Jn. 3:3-5. However, everything that has been exposed about the role of the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, and faith, shows the error of such an interpretation. In reality it is not the baptism of water that regenerates the one who hears with faith; water baptism is the symbol and testimony of this reality, and incorporation into the corporate testimony of the Church in its external aspect. (See WATER, BAPTISM, WASHING, REGENERATION WASHING.) References: Billy Graham: “Peace with God,” Moody Ed., 1965; Lewis Sperry Chafer: “Way of Salvation” Evangelical Spokesman Ed. 1975. Lewis Sperry Chafer and John F. Walwoord: “Great Biblical Themes” Evangelical Spokesman Ed. 1976. John Bunyan: “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (reissue) Ed. Clie 1980, this allegory of the Christian life is a classic of evangelical thought on the subject of the Christian life. Ernesto Trenchard: “Studies of Fundamental Doctrine”, Ed. Biblical Literature, 1969; John RW Stott: “Basic Christianity”, Certainty Ed., 1965; John Wesley: “Selected Sermons”, Nazarene Publishing House, 1975; Francisco Lacueva: “Doctrines of Grace”, Ed. Clíe, 1976.
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Own word of the NT to mean the new life of the Christian, which, through baptism, becomes a new creature (Rom 12,2; Tit 3,5); he has been reborn from above (Jn 3,3); it has been radically renewed, totally (Rom 6,1-14; 1 Cor 1,10; 6,11; 12,13; 2 Cor 3,6; Gal 3,27). This rebirth (1 Pe 1,3), effected by baptism and the Holy Spirit (Jn 3,5), is an indispensable condition to enter the kingdom of God Qn 3,5).
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FERNANDEZ RAMOS, Felipe (Dir.), Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth, Editorial Monte Carmelo, Burbos, 2001
Source: Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth
Regeneration, or new birth, is the internal recreation of fallen human nature, by the action of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 3:5-8). The Bible conceives of salvation as the redemptive renewal of man on the basis of a restored relationship with God in Christ, and presents it as involving “a radical and complete transformation wrought in the soul (Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4: 23) by God the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5; Eph. 4:24), by virtue of which we become ‘new men’ (Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10), no longer conformed to this world (Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:22; Col. 3:9), but created after the image of God in knowledge and holiness of the truth (Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10; Rom. 12:2)” (BB Warfield, Biblical and Theological Studies, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1952, p. 351). Regeneration is the birth by which this work of new creation begins, just as sanctification is the “growth” by which it continues (1 Pet. 2:2; 2 Pet. 3:18). Regeneration in Christ changes the lawless, godless disposition of self-centeredness that dominates man in Adam to a disposition of trust and love, repentance for past rebellion and unbelief, and loving conformity to God’s law of there on. Enlightens the blind mind to discern spiritual realities (1 Cor. 2:14–15; 2 Cor. 4:6; Col. 3:10), and frees and empowers the will that was enslaved to freely obey God (Rom. 6:14, 17–22; Phil. 2:13). The use of the new birth to describe this change emphasizes two facts about it. The first is its decisive character. The regenerated man forever ceases to be the man he was; his old life has passed and he has begun a new life; he is a new creature in Christ, buried with him beyond the reach of damnation, and has risen with him to a new life of righteousness (see Rom. 6:3–11; 2 Cor. 5:17; Col. 3: 9–11). The second fact emphasized is the monergism of regeneration. The baby does not induce or cooperate with her own procreation and birth; neither can those who are dead in “delicts and sins” cause the quickening operation of the Spirit of God within them (see Eph. 2:1–10). Spiritual quickening is a free and mysterious exercise of divine power (John 3:8). This quickening is mysterious to man because it is impossible for him to explain it in terms of a combination or cultivation of existing human resources (Jn. 3:6), which is neither caused nor…