Transformation Through New Creation
What happens when someone becomes a Christian?
One of the ways that the Bible answers that question is to say that a Christian is a New Creation (2 Cor. 5:17). To be a Christian means that a person has undergone a powerful and supernatural transformation whereby God has made them into a new person. Ephesians 4:22-24 builds on this reality, as the Apostle Paul calls Christians to "put off the old self" and "put on the new self."
In other words, when someone becomes a Christian they are so powerfully transformed by God that they now have both the duty and the ability, by God's grace, to put to…
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