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For clarity and openness, I realize that within my
PhD focus on the problem of evil and theodicy, my reviews of Reformed,
Evangelical, Liberal and Critical perspectives meant that concepts of regeneration were dealt
with more than concepts of repentance. But in review, I did mention human repentance
in the context of human regeneration via God as primary cause.
If compatibilism did actually equate with hard
determinism, as some incompatibilists claim in error (And some hard determinists, perhaps claim in error), and not soft determinism,
why would God as primary cause will for a human secondary cause in Jesus Christ
to embrace, for example, repentance? Again, a regenerated person in Christ,
does not just wake up one morning accepting the atoning and resurrection,
gospel work for self, justification and sanctification and having no understanding
why that is the case. Repentance is a continual process in a believer's life, as in confessing sin in 1 John.
I have discussed repentance within this website’s
archives.
PhD,
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, 2010
As persons were regenerated they would hear the
call of salvation, repent and believe in Christ.[1] I would view conversion as an aspect of
regeneration, which is the beginning of the Christian experience.[2] 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.[3]
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.
FRANKE, JOHN R. (2005) The
Character of Theology, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids.
MURRAY, JOHN (1937-1966)(1977)
Collected Writings of John Murray, Vol. 2:
Select Lectures in Systematic
Theology, Edinburgh, The Banner of Truth Trust.
