Timmay
Puritan Board Freshman
I just finished Warfield's The Plan of Salvation and he mentions Congruist Calvinism which:
"imagines that the Holy Spirit thus effectually brings them to Christ, not by an almighty, creative action on their souls, by which they are made new creatures, functioning subsequently as such, but purely by suasive operations, adapted in his infallible wisdom to the precise state of mind and heart of those whom he has selected for salvation, and so securing from their own free action, a voluntary coming to Christ and embracing of him for salvation."
He says the Holy Spirit does not make them new creations.
This prompted a clarification on my end:
In regeneration, we are made new creatures, given new wills by the Holy Spirit, and with these new wills we willingly come to and embrace Christ. That's my understanding.
But I've also heard that we are made new creatures, and that the Holy Spirit then persuades us to come, and we come.
Perhaps these are nuances of the same thing, or what I've heard isn't quite right, but what is the proper understanding of what occurs at regeneration?
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"imagines that the Holy Spirit thus effectually brings them to Christ, not by an almighty, creative action on their souls, by which they are made new creatures, functioning subsequently as such, but purely by suasive operations, adapted in his infallible wisdom to the precise state of mind and heart of those whom he has selected for salvation, and so securing from their own free action, a voluntary coming to Christ and embracing of him for salvation."
He says the Holy Spirit does not make them new creations.
This prompted a clarification on my end:
In regeneration, we are made new creatures, given new wills by the Holy Spirit, and with these new wills we willingly come to and embrace Christ. That's my understanding.
But I've also heard that we are made new creatures, and that the Holy Spirit then persuades us to come, and we come.
Perhaps these are nuances of the same thing, or what I've heard isn't quite right, but what is the proper understanding of what occurs at regeneration?
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