All of God's elect children are buried with Christ into death, as Paul describes regeneration in Romans 6. This is true, because there is no immediate knowledge of regeneration. The person continues his life here on earth just as he did the day before, unconverted, in disobedience to God, in love with darkness. However, now he is doing these things freely, yielding himself a servant of sin.
The regenerate unconverted disobedient person is now able to believe in a god, and is subject to being mislead to idols and false gods. Having now a new second spiritual nature, the person is able to hear and understand the gospel. According to 1 Corinthians 2:11, the old carnal man can only know and understand carnal things. But God is spiritual, and to know or understand spiritual things, a person requires the spiritual nature to reveal such things to him. We are given this new spiritual nature at regeneration "that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God".
The regenerate unconverted are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, and unmerciful.
This is grace without works, unmerited, unwarranted, undeserved.
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Buried with Christ into death, so that we might be raised to life. (Romans 6) |
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| Regeneration Born of Water Eating His flesh Live Forever Solely By Grace |
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; AND he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35) |
Conversion Born of Spirit Drinking His blood Hath Eternal Life By Faith & Works |
| Except a man be born of water AND of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5) |
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