“The cross/resurrection event is a genuine novum, a first-order reversal of all previous arrangements—an altogether new creation ex nihilo, out of nothing. We are speaking of the God who ‘calls into existence the things that do not exist’ (Rom. 4.17). Paul speaks of faith in Christ not so much as a human response to God’s activity but as God’s direct creation, something that did not previously exist but has now been called into being.” – Fleming Rutledge
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