St Paul
In Our Time
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The New Creation Is Coming Out of Nothing
The Jewish tradition has long thought about God's grace. But Paul sees when he looks at the scriptures again in the light of his own experience, he sees a pattern whereby God's grace comes out of nowhere and is not preconditioned. He finds as he goes out into the non-Jewish world all these unlikely people who have no dignity in Roman terms,. No moral worth, who have nothing to as it were commend them. And yet, God's spirit as Paul puts it, lands on them and they become believers.
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