Ezekiel 18:30-32 and 36:25-27

First, God tells Israel to make for themselves a new heart and spirit     - then later, he says he will give them a new heart and spirit         • which is it? Do create the new self we are to become or does God?             ◦ asking the question this way suggests an apparent contradiction             ◦ it assumes that the situation must be either this or that         • either we are the active agents for change or God is the active agent     - the right question to ask: