One well-known writer on the Spirit, Jürgen Moltmann, calls his book on this subject The Spirit of Life.8 Formulating the theme that the Spirit comes from outside us, not in origin from within us, Moltmann observes, “Experiences [of the Spirit] ‘happen’ to us and ‘befall’ us.”9 He elsewhere states, “The experience of God’s Spirit is not limited to the human subject’s experience of the self.”10 In the NT this experience of receiving life is related to rebirth in John and resurrection in Paul. Daniel
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