Bible Study New Creation Race Being

[Soul man]

If I were to sum up the Christian message for our time in a single statement, I would say that, with Paul, it is the message of the new creation race being.
We can read this in second Corinthians 5:17. Let me paraphrase: if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being , a whole new race of people: the old state of things has passed away, there is a new state of things.

Christianity is the message of this new race of people. It is the message of a whole new creation, an entirely new being, and a wonderful new reality.

This world was developed for human beings. God the Father ultimately brought this about through the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth. Because of this, the new creation is called a Christ-person or Christian. It is Christ the Messiah, the selected and anointed one, who brings about the new creation race of people and a new state of being. Since all human beings have lived in the old state of things, the question is raised in second Corinthians whether we also participate in the new state of things.
We have belonged to the old creation but the demand is made upon us by Christianity that we participate and understand our part in the new creation race.
What exactly is the new creation race being? Paul answers first by saying what it is not. It is neither circumcision nor uncircumcised.
For Paul and the readers of his Galatians letter, the new creation race being meant something very definite. It meant that neither being a Jew nor a pagan is ultimately important and that only one thing counts , namely, our Union with Christ, in whom is the new reality.
Circumcision or uncircumcision, what does that mean for us? It could mean something very definite, and at the same time something very universal.
It means that no religion (Think of any and all religions) produces the new creation race being.
Only the Father can bring about this new creation race being and only a new state of being matters. That means Christianity is not a religion, it is a birthed person by God the father.

 

[Chopper]

That is a good presentation of the new creation my friend. I have found that many Christians don't take into account that we actually are new. I like .... Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

A very large part of being a new creation is that "Christ lives IN me". If Jesus Christ lives in me, then Christ lives in my neighbor as well. That is why Elohim (triune God) commanded this .... Matthew 22:37 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

Even in CF.net, our wonderful Forum, there have been insults upon various members, as they post to each other. What's happening here? That is a complete disregard for these two Scriptures. If I insult my Brother while posting with him, in reality, I'm insulting Jesus the Son of God!! Yep! That's right. If we take the Scriptures seriously, we won't debate, insult, or think or say anything that would degrade a Brother or Sister because they are indwelt by the Son of God and His very powerful Holy Spirit.

A new creation? Yep! And it would benefit us all, if we lived it!!

 

[Soul man]

That is a good presentation of the new creation my friend. I have found that many Christians don't take into account that we actually are new. I like .... Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

A very large part of being a new creation is that "Christ lives IN me". If Jesus Christ lives in me, then Christ lives in my neighbor as well. That is why Elohim (triune God) commanded this .... Matthew 22:37 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

Even in CF.net, our wonderful Forum, there have been insults upon various members, as they post to each other. What's happening here? That is a complete disregard for these two Scriptures. If I insult my Brother while posting with him, in reality, I'm insulting Jesus the Son of God!! Yep! That's right. If we take the Scriptures seriously, we won't debate, insult, or think or say anything that would degrade a Brother or Sister because they are indwelt by the Son of God and His very powerful Holy Spirit.

A new creation? Yep! And it would benefit us all, if we lived it!!

True Chopper, seems to be easy to throw words around on an impersonal media such as a Forum.
Regardless the Christian life ( Christ life ) can be lived in any spontaneous situation.
We have no more repentance in full grace, we either live it or we don't.
It's a matter of loving the Christ in you more than you love yourself.
I have often told the drug addict or the alcoholic in counsel, "you're hope lies within your love for Christ."
The " I can't help myself or was born this way" does not work in grace.
That is law, you can fail, beg for forgiveness and repeat that situation all your born again days, it's a miserable life.