knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

 (iii) It happens by the word of truth ( James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:23). In the beginning it was the word of God which created heaven and earth and all that is in them. God spoke and the chaos became a world, and the world was equipped with and for life. It is the creative word of God in Jesus Christ which brings about this rebirth in a man's life. 