breath that creates life, that summons into life.”89 Far from denying the subjective transformation of the new birth and sanctification, the classic evangelical view points to its only possible source. As with all sound teaching in the Scriptures, the goal of the doctrine is to bring us to doxology, giving all praise to God with nothing left for ourselves. “What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?… Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who
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