Nova criatura
Em Cristo somos nova criação. O velho se foi, tudo se fez novo. A transformação não é reforma — é renascimento completo pelo poder do Espírito Santo.
Novas criaturas em Cristo
Se alguém está em Cristo, nova criação é. As coisas velhas passaram e eis que tudo se fez novo. A transformação é radical e total.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Despir o velho e vestir o novo
Somos chamados a despir o velho homem e vestir o novo, criado segundo Deus em justiça e santidade provenientes da verdade.
22 That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;24 And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;10 And have put on the new man, that is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin.7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives 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.
Coração e Espírito novos
Deus promete dar um coração novo e um espírito novo. Pelo novo nascimento somos feitos participantes da natureza divina.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
18 Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.