DOCTRINE

The New Birth

(A)   We believe that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again; that the new birth is the new creation in Jesus Christ; that it is instantaneous and not a process; that in the new birth, the one who is dead in trespasses and in sins is made a partaker of the divine nature and receives eternal life, the free gift of God; that the new creation is brought about in a manner above our comprehension, not by culture, not by character, nor by the will of man, but wholly and solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith in newness of life.

John 3:3, 6-11; Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:1; Colossians 2:13; John 1:12-13