Just as our fleshly body is surely born of our parents, so our spiritual life is also surely born of God.

... of God whereby He declares absolutely righteous anyone who takes shelter in the Blood Of Christ as their only hope for salvation Regeneration is the most dramatic change in a new believer; when we are "born again" we enter the family of God. Now we come to the second event, namely, regeneration, or the new birth. Regeneration: Appears 2 times in the English Bible. In the previous chapter, we considered effectual calling, the first event of the application of redemption, or ordo salutis. Conversion occurs when sinners turn to God in repentance and faith for salvation. This regeneration is a relationship of real birth between man and God.

For example, being raised from spiritual death to spiritual life is immediate, irrevocable, and final. In religion, salvation is the saving of the soul from sin and its consequences. Regeneration or being born again is a supernatural birth. The following questions on regeneration and salvation come from James Boyce’s A Brief Catechism of Bible Doctrine (1878) and John Broadus’s A Catechism of Bible Teaching (1892).These would be handy tools for teaching your children about the new birth. Salvation in some respects is immediate and final. Regeneration is the first effect of effectual calling. Just as we cannot do anything to be born physically—it just happens to us!—so too we cannot do anything to cause our spiritual rebirth. When God calls us into fellowship with Christ, he gives us a new life, a new heart. Salvation is considered to be caused, depending on the religion or even denomination, either only by the grace of God (i.e. unmerited and unearned) or by faith or good deeds (works) or a combination thereof.

The gift of salvation is about Jesus who died to take us who are dead in our sins, bring us to life; and welcome us as family members, full of endless life and brand new - that's regeneration! It may also be called deliverance or redemption from sin and its effects. Regeneration.