With Christ, one becomes a new person.
"So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation." (2 Corinthians 5:17-18) In this luminous passage from the Second Letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul articulates the profound reality of transformation that occurs in the life of every believer united to Christ. The bold assertion that "whoever is in Christ is a new creation" encapsulates the radical novelty introduced by divine grace. This newness is not superficial nor merely ethical; it is ontological, signifying a profound re-creation of the person's very being. The "old things"—the dominion of sin, alienation from God, the reign of death—have been definitively surpassed. In Christ, the believer participates in a new order of existence, inaugurated by the Paschal Mystery, where divine life is infused into the human soul, re...