having their hearts strangely warmed). I have nothing against figuring out true ideas; and I am certainly in favor of the strange warming of the heart. But in the New Testament these are in service to the larger goal of new creation, the new creation which is launched in the resurrection of Jesus after the defeat of all hostile powers including death itself. This new creation will finally include the resurrection of all Jesus’s people. In the meantime it already includes their revivification by the
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