tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post113890817831701238..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The Chicken or the Egg-Which Comes First-Regeneration or Faith, That's the Real QuestionRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1150593628849537762006-06-17T21:20:00.000-04:002006-06-17T21:20:00.000-04:00I've read through 1 John at least 100 times in my ...I've read through 1 John at least 100 times in my lifetime, and I first studied it through in the Greek 25 years ago. You are pulling these passages out of their context to make your regeneration precedes faith point.<BR/><BR/>The practice of righteousness (2:29), the practice of love (4:7), and the practice of believing (5:1) reveal someone who has the Son and who has life, i.e. is born spirituall at one point in the past with the results ongoing. The faith that reveals regeneration in 5:1 is not the faith that justifies in other passages, found very often in the aorist or perfect tenses. This is the faith that follows conversion that gives assurance of salvation to the one who has already believe on the name of the Son of God (1 John 5:13).Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1138919987996976472006-02-02T17:39:00.000-05:002006-02-02T17:39:00.000-05:00WOW, Gene!I didn't read it all the first time; I'l...WOW, Gene!<BR/><BR/>I didn't read it all the first time; I'll have to go back to it later. :)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the hard work!<BR/><BR/>SDG,<BR/>DaveDavid B. Hewitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278089758893077906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1138911002085903502006-02-02T15:10:00.000-05:002006-02-02T15:10:00.000-05:00Thanks for the "short" exegesis of those John pass...Thanks for the "short" exegesis of those John passages. Just kidding. That was well written. I saved it in my Word docs.Scott Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141352576274672374noreply@blogger.com