Question 29: What is regeneration?

Paul reminds believers of their new lives in Christ. When God's kindness and love appeared, he saved them from their foolish, disobedient enslavement to sin. Paul describes a "rebirth" to echo what Jesus referred to as being "born again" (John 3:3). Just as they had all been born physically, they also needed to be born spiritually. Regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit. Just as the Spirit was involved in the original creation, the Spirit recreates believers, giving them what they could never produce on their own—spiritual life...