(urth) Gideon

[John Watkins]

>
> I don't want to start a whole theological argument, but I think you've
> reversed cause and effect here. It is not that acting morally allows
> us to receive Christ's grace; rather, it is that Christ's grace allows
> us to act morally. Unregenerate humanity, the "old creation,"  is
> conceived of as corrupt and fallen, and incapable of doing any real
> good. "In Christ I am a new creation," and capable of doing real
> good.
>

As Mr. Beaver puts it in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, "There
may be two schools of thought" on this question.  It's possibly best
to leave it at that.

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