---
title: 'Nature and Grace'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Williamson Nevin'
date: 1872-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
- 'Effectual Calling and Regeneration'
- 'Deity, and Person and Work of Christ'
scriptures:
- 'John 3'
- 'Romans 8'
- 'Genesis 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nevin-1872-nature-and-grace
---

# Nature and Grace

Nevin teaches from John 3 that entry into God's kingdom requires a supernatural 'birth from above'—Christ's divine descent and Spirit-wrought regeneration, not mere moral ascent.

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