Hodge, in some
of his statements, seems to give this impression, but the following quotation
indicates that he believes that the sinner is active and responsible before
regeneration:
The soul cooperates, or, is active in what precedes and in what follows
the change (which occurs in regeneration), but the change itself is something experienced,
and not something done. The blind and the lame who came to Christ, may have
undergone much labor in getting into his presence, and they joyfully exerted
the new power imparted to them, but they were entirely passive in the moment of
healing. They in no way cooperated in the production of that effect. The same
must be true in regeneration if regeneration be the effect of almighty power as
much as the opening the eyes of the blind or the unstopping by a word the ears
of the deaf.2
2 Charles
Hodge, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 1940)’, Vol. II, p. 688.
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