salvation. Evidently we need a more biblically nuanced understanding of “works.” Not all works are the same; not all are opposed to faith. Some works express and complete faith. Moral efforts of human nature in its sinful state of bondage, apart from God’s Spirit (Paul’s “works of law”) cannot save, because nothing has value that does not flow ultimately from God as its origin. But the fruit of the Spirit is otherwise: “He who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life” (Galatians
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