ThatItalianGuy
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello all,
I have recently been told by my non-Reformed Pastor that the Westminster confession says that:
When the believer is regenerated, justification and adoption both happen at the same time of regeneration.
When asked for a reference in the cathechism he refused to provide it (he literally said he didn’t have to).
Considering the little growing knowledge that I have of Reformed theology and the Cathechism (that I’ve read to research this matter) such claim sounds bogus to me.
What do you think? Does regeneration coincide chronologically with justification, adoption and conversion or is it possible for some to be regenerated and yet not be justified immediately, but perhaps days or even years later? Or is he right?
My understanding is that some may be born again for a time before converting, and it is only at conversion that justification and adoption happen.
Please bear with me for I am but a novice in the Reformed camp but I believe it to be the truth according to my studies of Scripture.
God bless.
I have recently been told by my non-Reformed Pastor that the Westminster confession says that:
When the believer is regenerated, justification and adoption both happen at the same time of regeneration.
When asked for a reference in the cathechism he refused to provide it (he literally said he didn’t have to).
Considering the little growing knowledge that I have of Reformed theology and the Cathechism (that I’ve read to research this matter) such claim sounds bogus to me.
What do you think? Does regeneration coincide chronologically with justification, adoption and conversion or is it possible for some to be regenerated and yet not be justified immediately, but perhaps days or even years later? Or is he right?
My understanding is that some may be born again for a time before converting, and it is only at conversion that justification and adoption happen.
Please bear with me for I am but a novice in the Reformed camp but I believe it to be the truth according to my studies of Scripture.
God bless.