The One Who Is In CHRIST Is A New Creature

"Indeed, the love of CHRIST holds us, and we realize, that, if HE died for all, all have died.  HE died for all, so, that, those who live, may live no longer for themselves, but for HIM, who died, and rose again for them.  And so, from now on, we do not regard anyone from a human point of view; and even if we once knew CHRIST personally, we should now regard HIM in another way.

 

For that same reason, the one who is in CHRIST is a new creature.  For him, the old things have passed away; a new world has come." - 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 

(There are many ways of understanding faith: for each one of us, one or other aspect of Christian life makes more of an impact.  What Paul sees in CHRIST is the great messenger and artisan of reconciliation.

His first conviction is that, with the death of CHRIST, a new age has begun for divided humanity.  If HE died for all, all have died, namely, the whole history and wisdom of people before HIM have been surpassed and now GOD works among us in other ways.

The one who is in CHRIST is a new creature: first because the barriers that divide and separate people no longer exist for him [see Galatians 3:27; Ephesians 2:14-16].  Also because it is not human desires that guide him, but the Spirit of GOD who recreates him at every instant [Galatians 5:13-21].)

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