Creation, The New

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This word is also translated “creature” and the expression, “a new creature,” occurs 2 Cor. 5:1717Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17) and Gal. 6:1515For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. (Galatians 6:15), and describes the absolute newness and divine origin of the life and nature of the believer. With the definite article, however, the expression is used more generally as descriptive of the new work of God beginning with the resurrection of Christ, the beginning of the creation of God (Rev. 3:1414And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (Revelation 3:14)), passing on to ourselves, and ending with the new heavens and earth. In this way it is an interesting parallel to Gen. 1. Christians are spiritually in the new creation, though their bodies and earthly ties and duties are in the old.