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Salvation Applied by The Spirit: Union with Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The doctrine of believers’ union with Christ has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Evangelicals are rightly fascinated by this previously neglected doctrine—a doctrine with wide-ranging implications for the whole of Christian theology and the Christian life. Drawing on his extensive teaching and research experience, theologian Robert Peterson has written one of the most comprehensive...

Bethlehem does not mark the beginning of the Son of God’s existence. He existed for all eternity with the Father and Holy Spirit in heaven. The Christ to whom we are united preexisted as the eternal Son of God. He, the preexistent Son, became a human being in his incarnation. Christology begins “above” in the preexistence of the divine Son. It moves “below” when the Son becomes a human being in Jesus of Nazareth. This is the incarnation, the eternal, almighty God becoming a man. We
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