Explain the New Creation Race
ExplainThe New Creation Race
I would say with Paul that it is the message of the new-creation-race being in Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 17 .If anyone is in Christ, he is a new being part of a whole new race of people. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new being, part of 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 entire world was created 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 selected and anointed one, who brings about the new raced of people and a new state of being. Since all humans have lived in the old state of things, the question is raised by our text whether we also participate in the new state of things. We have belonged to the old creation, but Christianity makes the demand upon us that we participate and understand our part in the new creation race. Having known ourselves in our old being, we must ask ourselves at this time whether we have also experienced something of the new being in the Christ-Life.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. Gal 6:15
What exactly is this new-creation-race being? In this verse, Paul first said what it is not. It is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision. For Paul and the readers of his Galatians’ letter,