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I have been always thinking that Faith by Regeneration.
I have been always thinking that Faith by Regeneration.
You are correct if by regeneration you mean the new life in Christ we have by the Holy Spirit. However at the time of the Reformation the word 'regeneration' had a broader meaning to it which included the life of repentance, or the daily dying of the old man and the living of the new (cf. Heidelberg Catechism, Q&A 88). So Calvin is saying here (in 3.3 of the Institutes) that repentance, or godly living is from/a result of faith.
Dr. Kistler, yes I brought this point up because primitive baptist errors are rife within some of the sovereign grace baptist churches that I am acquainted with. They propose that some can be regenerate without possessing faith and that some can even be born again without knowing it. Old Hardshell errors are being brought out in the name of defending monergism and many cannot distinguish between a "logical order" and a "chronological order" and thus they defend a time gap between these events.