Reflecting on that, I’m thinking it is a passive power, so to speak, a legal right, an ‘empowering document’ of adoption, if you will, since we have been adopted into Jesus’ family, and not your mistaken entitlement idea. It is nothing of our own doing, your ‘the power to save ourselves’ – it is no such thing. (You need to give up that part of the ‘spectrum’ and make it a little narrower. 
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