Moreover, God needed to demonstrate the futility of this false conception so that, “at just the right time” (Rom 5:6), he could reveal the only kind of God that anyone can ever be rightly related to. And this, of course, is the unfathomably gracious God who gave his life on Calvary to reconcile all sinners back to himself and who now motivates people to live according to his will by giving his Spirit to all who simply trust him, the way Abraham did.
