Regeneration is everything

Regeneration is everything for a Christian. With regeneration you know biblical doctrine is true because you experience it. You don't have to be argued or persuaded that justification is by faith alone because you can discern your fallen nature and you know how things were prior to regeneration by the Word and the Spirit.

Regeneration separates the churchians from the strangers in this world: in this world, not of this world.

Regeneration is indeed, as John Owen said, the most hated thing about Christianity from within Christianity. Those on the outside of Christianity are unaware of the existence of anything called regeneration. The nominal Christians know of it from reading their books of doctrine, and they get enough of a sense of what it must be to hate it and continually mock it and the Word and the Spirit that effects it, when it is effected. All the exaltation of man and ritual over the Word and the Spirit. The very disdain for the *received* Word of God and the replacing of it with inane and wicked products of man (shallow and duped scholars, easily led by the nose when the devil is pulling on their nose ring, fed garbage in seminaries about 'higher criticism' and 'textual criticism' which always adds up to "the Bible is a mere document to be looked down on, not something to be looked up to humbly and received; and the Bible hence needs man more than man needs the Bible"), all of this occurs in environments controlled by the unregenerate, nominal Christians (churchians).

The Word and the Spirit regenerate. The Roman Beast church kept the Word of God away from people upon pain of torture and death. The Roman Beast church confiscated and burned Bibles; yet the Roman Beast church called people to be baptized all day long. What you need to conclude from this little fact is the devil *knows* what regenerates, and it's not man, and it's not ritual.

Regeneration by the Word and the Spirit is everything for a Christian. All the nonsense one sees in the doctrinal debates, all the blind leading the blind in each branch of Christianity, all the shallowness (and enforced shallowness, environments policed to maintain shallowness), all the man-fearing and anger towards any who fear God only, all the unspoken difference between believers, that so angers them if anyone touches on the subject to any degree, all that dissipates for the Christian who has been regenerated by the Word and the Spirit.

Regeneration causes great resentment among the nominal Christians who are unregenerate. "Why would God regenerate anyone if he hasn't regenerated me? Am I not good? Am I not more holy than my neighbor? I must mock it. It is a standing rebuke to me."