Since, then, you have been raised with Christ …
Summary: Paul’s words in this passage are the culmination of the point he has been working up to — that we are transformed by knowing Jesus. Not just a minor change but a metamorphosis.
Paul begins Chapter Three of his letter to the Colossians with a simple statement: “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ …”
The challenge with this statement is the same one we find in many of the Bible’s proclamations; we live in two realms simultaneously. We have bodies in the physical realm that are subject to the curses that fell on Adam and Eve when they first sinned. We also have spirits that exist in the invisible realm.
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