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Just in case you missed it while speed reading the post--it was a long post, it takes the Life of God, the Presence of God in the human spirit, to produce the nature of God in the Born Again human. Here's the Gospel of Grace in a nutshell: No man can be good enough to generate the nature of God in the human soul/spirit; Jesus walked totally righteous before humankind because His seed--the Holy Spirit of God Almighty--remained within Him until the moment God withdrew His Spirit from Jesus so that Jesus could die the death of one accused IN OUR PLACE. But the justification of God is by faith, so God raised Him up from death, justified and the Holy Spirit again indwelling Him. By faith we too have that same Holy Spirit come into our human spirit, in order to renew our soul to conform to the image of God's Son. It is a lifelong process this conforming, this trans-formative process accomplished by our obedience to His urging from within our human spirit, as He changes our want to so that we are a new creation in Christ Jesus.