Who generated salvation according to this teaching?
According to this teaching, salvation was generated by the work of the Holy Spirit. The context states that the Holy Spirit's work generated salvation because of their faith, contrasting it with the flesh and the works of the Law. Believers begin in the Spirit, not by fleshly effort.
Les explains that the Holy Spirit's work generated salvation because of their faith. He connects this to Galatians 3, where Paul asks whether the Galatians, having begun in the Spirit, are now trying to be made perfect by the flesh. Les identifies the flesh as a reference to the Law, which was fleshly, weak, and beggarly. He contrasts receiving the Spirit by the works of the Law with receiving by the hearing of faith, emphasizing that faith is taking God at His Word.