New Birth
New-Birth
is the technical expression frequently used instead of regeneration to express the change from a natural or irreligious to a Christian living. The Church of England theology defines it as That thing which by nature a human being cannot have; that he may be baptized with water and the Holy Ghost, and received into Christ’s holy Church, and be made a lively member of the same. A death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness. In short, it is that change of the moral nature which is requisite for salvation. This requirement, made by the Protestant Church in Christ’s name, is undertaken by the person to be baptized. In the Anglican and Lutheran churches, in the case of infants to be baptized, the sponsor or parent assumes the responsibility of so training the candidate for baptism that when, having come to years of discretion, he recognises the vows of his baptism, and lives soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. An ambiguity has arisen from the difference of sense in which the term new-birth is at different times employed. It is used by some (in a sense allied to the above statement) to denote the admission to the privileges with which the Christian Church is endowed: namely, that grace whose tendency is to place us in the way of salvation; by others, to signify the state of mind suitable to those who are born of (God, and are in the path that leads to eternal life. SEE CONVERSION SEE JUSTIFICATION; SEE REGENERATION; SEE SALVATION.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
NEW BIRTH
See REGENERATION.
Fuente: Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
New Birth
NEW BIRTH.See Regeneration.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
New Birth
NEW BIRTH.See Regeneration.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
New Birth
See REGENERATION.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
New Birth
is a term commonly used to convey concisely the truth brought out in the beginning of John 3, namely, that a man’s origin spiritually must be of God’s work in him if he is to come under the moral sway of God in grace. This is specially the point in the conversation of the Lord with Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again [, not only again, but ‘anew,’ a new source and beginning], he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God”: that is, born of the Holy Spirit as the power, and of water (the word) as the means of moral cleansing. “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.” Jam 1:18: cf. Eph 5:26. “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit:” it is of the nature of its source – spiritual and not natural.
Nicodemus was astonished at what he heard, yet as a teacher in Israel he should have known the ‘earthly’ (not ‘worldly’) things concerning the kingdom of God. He should have learned from such passages as Eze 36:25-28; Jer 31:33, that new birth was necessary for Israel to have part in God’s kingdom. The heavenly things of Christianity are spoken of subsequently in John 3 as the fruit of the cross, and the love of God, but there must be new birth as the foundation in man, whatever be the nature of the blessing proposed.