you create the relationship with God through the spirit.
Uh, hell no. I was - and you appear to still be - dead in sin(s). God made US alive with him. We love because he first loved us.
He did everything by dying on the cross. You did jack shit.
God finally graced me last year with his presence
None of it is possible without his grace. The relationship is created through your humility and submission to his will. I should have worded that better earlier. But the relationship only continues through the submission and desire to seek his will, so that is what I mean by creating the relationship. I should have said, deepen the relationship, or build the relationship. He is and has always been there, but without the right constitution there is a blockage to communion.
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