So the million-dollar question becomes, how are these two things going to occur? The biblical teaching is that they could never occur on humanity’s own effort. Our situation in sin is far too severe for this. Left to ourselves we do not even want to “pay” for our own sins, and even if we did want to, we’d have to die (eternally) to do it! What is more, our situation in sin is such that we don’t on our own want to change ourselves, and even if we did want to change ourselves, we couldn’t do it.
