Murray, who accepts and defends limited atonement and also believes regeneration precedes faith, seems to present a contradiction when explaining the relation of faith to salvation. Beginning his chapter on faith and repentance he says, “Without regeneration it is morally and spiritually impossible for a person to believe in Christ, but when a person is regenerated it is morally and spiritually impossible for that person not to believe.”29 In words which are almost diametrically opposed to these
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