You are saying regeneration happened UPON hearing the gospel, making hearing the gospel a prerequisite to regeneration. Let's see, how do you put it! "that dog want fly", or something to that nature. A knowledge of the gospel (by the scriptures) says it saves (delivers) you. That is true, but it only delivers you here in time. Saved = delivered, according to the Greek.
From Ephesians 1...
3 Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight 9
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times,
that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him 11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, 12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him, you also,
after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of
God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
How are we made to know the mystery of His will? By His word. How are we sealed with the Spirit? By His word. Our salvation comes by God, but via His word.