Christians
are ‘begotten again’,[1]
and Christ is the Second Adam, the progenitor of a new, redeemed race.[2] Creation, absolute and original – for
that is what the Pauline phrase means, and not a reconditioning of used
materials[3]
– is the reverse side of salvation.
But the truth is never forgotten that salvation has its source
in God: ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself’.[4]