What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate. . . There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.
No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.
If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated. . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit. ' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.
As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.
Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.
