What theologians often call original sin — sometimes described as inbred sin — is the inner condition of the heart from which sinful actions...

Where do human beings really fit in God’s creation? This isn’t just an abstract question for philosophers or theologians — it has real conse...

The spirit of sin, or inbred sin, technically called original sin, because it is inherited from Adam, is the state of heart out of which act...

Guest blog by Daniel D. Whedon (1808-1885): Where God performs directly the work of justification and of regeneration, is it not to be e...

It is interesting and instructive to note the relation of the Holy Spirit to conscience in the work of regeneration and sanctification. If m...

The question is often asked, "Why does not the Spirit entirely sanctify when He regenerates?" We answer, it is because that neithe...

Regeneration is the lodgement by the Holy Spirit of the new principle of life. This is love to God, which is the ruling motive of every genu...

QUESTION: What do you regard as the strongest Scriptural proof that a person who has been truly converted may be finally and eternally lost?...

QUESTION: Were the five foolish virgins regenerated? ANSWER: Yes; they were all companions of the Bride, all had brightly burning lamps or t...

QUESTION: Are justification and regeneration always concomitants? ANSWER: It would not be safe for God to do a work for us without at the sa...

QUESTION: Is the statement that we are "baptized into Christ" of Rom. 6:3, and Gal. 3:27, to be understood to mean that water bapt...

QUESTION: Some young men in evangelical pulpits are teaching that there is a seed of goodness in children which, if properly developed, will...

QUESTION: How can we follow Christ "in the regeneration," as stated in Matt. 19:28, since he was never regenerated? "And ...

QUESTION: The same preacher [ see yesterdays' post ] says that he was entirely sanctified when he was converted. Is this a Wesleyan expe...

"And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the comi...

QUESTION: If inbred sin is merely a hereditary tendency to sin, is the soul that is regenerated but without the experience of entire sanctif...

QUESTION: If the necessity for regeneration is found in our fallen nature, do not infants need the new birth? ANSWER: Certainly. But if cu...

QUESTION: Does not the new birth impart the Divine nature? ANSWER: Properly speaking, only one man has the Divine nature, the only Son of G...

QUESTION: Are we to understand that the regenerated can live without sin? ANSWER: They can live much better without it than with it. The e...

QUESTION: Are we to understand that the regenerated can live without sin? ANSWER: "Sin properly defined," says Wesley, "is ...