It seems that the idea that the birth and regeneration of a sinner comes in two or three distinct stages, that affirms that the "begetting" is different that the "conception" or "birth" or "deliverance" (from the womb), is also a view held by the Swedenborgians. Notice these words.
"Proposition 24. That Regeneration or the New Birth is effected of the Lord alone, by charity and faith, during man's c0-operation; and that it is gradual, not an instantaneous work, the several stages thereof answering to those of man's natural birth, in that he is conceived, carried in the womb, brought forth, and educated." (True Christ. Rel. n.576-578, 583-586)
http://books.google.com/books?id=PCcOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=faith+regeneration+birth+brought+forth&source=web&ots=m6c-H58ei4&sig=YMECGjIaUCVRGkAY-0wrVYeLDMA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA236,M1
No comments:
Post a Comment