new birth
Beginning again spiritually
New birth is a religious term for spiritual regeneration—the moment a person is "born again" through faith, particularly in evangelical Christianity.
The concept draws from Jesus's teaching that one must be born again to enter the kingdom of God.
It marks a decisive transformation: After my new birth, everything looked different.
The term emphasizes that spiritual life begins fresh, as dramatically as physical birth.
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- resurrectionRevival from death
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- germinationSeed's initial growth phase
metamorphosis · revival · salvation · renaissance · glorification · hatching · baby's first breath · palingenesis · enlightenment · clean slate · starting over · cry · transcendence · purification · reinvention · sanctification · sprouting · reformation
- Evangelicalismevangelicalism, born again, born-again, evangelists, evangelist
- PietismMoravians, Moravian, piety, conventicle
- Protestant theologyfaith alone, grace alone, Calvinism, Lutheranism, predestination
- salvationredemption, eternal life, born again, justification, saving grace
- CalvinismCalvinism, TULIP, predestination, total depravity, John Calvin
- MethodismWesley, Methodist Church, Methodist, United Methodist Church, Methodism
new birthspiritual death
Eternal separation from God
damnation · perdition · eternal death · fallen state · reprobation
new birthdeath
Cessation of life
ending · extinction · termination · decay · regression
new birthbondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
corruption · depravity · alienation · despair · hopelessness