I would view conversion as an aspect
of regeneration, which is the beginning of the Christian experience.[1] Regeneration was to encompass the entire
divine plan of recreation from the initial change in persons to the ultimate
culmination of a new heaven and new earth.[2]
BAVINCK, HERMAN (1918)(2006) Reformed Dogmatics Volume 2: God and Creation, John Bolt (gen.ed.), Translated by John Vriend, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids.
BAVINCK,
HERMAN (1918)(2006) Reformed Dogmatics
Volume 3: Sin and Salvation in Christ, John Bolt (gen.ed.), Translated by
John Vriend, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids.
FRANCE, R.T.
(2001) Matthew, Grand Rapids,
Eerdmans.
October 3,
2017
God chooses
whom he wills and regenerates and converts without force or coercion. The elect
embrace salvation and regeneration, by grace through faith, with limited free
will (Ephesians 1-2, Titus 3). God begins a work for those in Jesus Christ
which will be completed (Philippians 1). Regeneration leads to
recreation/restoration and God also similarly transforms the human realm into
an everlasting one.
