From all eternity God purposed to have a family circle of His very own, not only created but born again through the life of His Spirit, partakers of His nature. “Long ago, even before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us” (Ephesians 1:4; also 5:23–27, 32, TLB). In order to obtain this personal family relationship, God conceived the infinitely vast and infinitely wise plan of creation plus redemption through the new birth in order
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