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: