[Gamecock]

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[SoConPubbie]

1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that. The word “that” underscores that saving faith has a particular content. It is not a vague religious commitment but a wholehearted trust in the saving work of Christ. Everyone who believes has been born of God. Regeneration precedes faith (cf. 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; note on Eph. 2:5).

This author has it backwords.

Faith preceeds repentence.

[Tucker39]

Somebody please help me out here. I want to learn. I got saved on August 18, 1962 and have been somewhat of a Bible scholar all these years, and have JUST NOW for the first time heard the term Monergism.

After reading most of your paragraph about Regeneration, I’m beginning to think Monergism is nothing more than a 75-cent name for Hyper-Calvinism, which used the acrostic: T-U-L-I-P to illustrate its 5 pillars. Am I getting warm?

I also may as well state that on this same type thread regarding this Bible yesterday, I read down the list of all the contributors of the content and articles in the new Study Bible. I found it curious that the ONLY name I recognized out of all those dozens was J.I. Packer. So who ARE all these strangers, and what doctrine might they be peddling? I think I’ll just stick to The New KJV and The NIV, and my Strong’s Concordance and let the supercharged Calvinists go do their own thang!