Sunday, April 1, 2018

Is It Regeneration?

Hardshell "Regeneration"
An Old Baptist Test

Test Questions

Is it "regeneration" when there is

1. no belief in the one true and living God?
2. no belief in the Son of God or in Jesus as Lord and Savior?
3. no knowledge of the gospel?
4. no conversion to God, Christ, or truth?
5. no conversion from idols?
6. no turning from Satan to God?
7. no revelation or enlightening?
8. no escape from darkness and ignorance?
9. no repentance and confession of sin?
10. no change of thinking or behavior for the better?
11. no moral renewal or transformation?
12. no obedience to or following of God or Christ?
13. no deliverance from sin's bondage to holiness and godliness?
14. no immediate good works or fruit produced?
15. no likeness to Christ produced?
16. no trust and commitment to God and Christ produced?
17. no love for God and righteousness produced?
18. no hope of salvation produced?
19. no purifying of the heart and conscience occurs?
20. no active receiving or laying hold of Christ and eternal life?
21. no becoming the servants of Christ and righteousness?
22. no union of the mind to Christ?
23. no active receiving of the Holy Spirit?
24. no signs of spiritual life?
25. no experience of the forgiveness of sins?
26. no rejoicing in Christ?
27. no spiritual peace with God?
28. no putting off of the old man?
29. no putting on of the new man?
30. no washing of one's robes in the blood of Christ?
31. no teaching from God or the Spirit?
32. no active coming to Christ?
33. no sanctification or making of the soul and mind holy?
34. no effectual calling to life and holiness?

Is your "regeneration" a biblical regeneration (or an "Old Baptist")? If it does not include the above items, then it is not biblical nor primitive Baptist.

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