I am a new creation in Christ.
There is no way I am going to go against what the scriptures say
and preach to others not to forget what they were before being saved.
We might have to disagree on this one...
11Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others.
What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again,
but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us,
so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen
rather than in what is in the heart.
13If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God;
if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced
that one died for all, and therefore all died.
15And he died for all,
that those who live should no longer live for themselves
but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:16
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.
Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17 Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:
a The old has gone, the new is here!
18 All this is from God,
who reconciled us to himself through Christ
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,
not counting people’s sins against them.
And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Seeing people spiritually is seeing them in their hearts...
Arsenios
