the disagreement is this-
when time frames are put on regeneration, then it makes it legalism.
grace salvation is negated when men make up their own rules that the Bible does not say.
So how long does it take for God to regenerate us? Oh, wait. If the fact that it takes a tree years to bear fruit means the same for a Christian to bear fruit, (do you remember saying that?). Then it must take nine months give or take, for the new birth.
I jest. Regeneration is the new birth. It is instantaneous upon believing. And receiving a new nature is part and parcel of the new birth. The new nature grows but it is there.
And because of our nature we are changed.
Does a hater of brother have eternal life? No
Why not? Because the fact that we have passed from death unto life causes us to love our brother.
The hater has not passed from death to life.
Neither has the one who continues in habitual practice of sin
The truly regenerate will eventually get out of the mud, because they are a sheep and not a pig
And it is not in a sheep’s nature to live in mud, though it may fall in. It will climb back out as soon as it can, because it doesn’t belong there
God helps us get out of the mud, no actually He lifts us out of the mud