We have Greg Boyd speaking this week at the Christian Associates staff conference in Sopron in Hungary. His theme is pretty much the stuff of a new book that will be coming out later this year, which, if Greg had had his way, would be entitled Revolting Beauty. As it is, the will of the publisher prevailed and it will be called something else – I don’t know what.

I began this series of posts about the old and new creations while
coiled in a self-defensive posture. As a non-Christian, how do I
respond to Andrew’s justification of the Yahwistic genocide
recorded in Deuteronomy 7, a mass slaughter of Gentiles by Jews that
harkens back to the Flood and foreshadows the Last Judgment? For Andrew
this mass eradication of entire nations exemplified God’s ongoing
project of separating the elect microcosm of the “new creation” from
the corrupt macrocosmic “old creation.” While it’s possible to infer
new/old creation distinctions in certain
historical events and turns of phrase that appear in the Old Testament,
only Paul actually uses the words and concepts explicitly. Does Paul
draw the distinction between old and new creations the same way Andrew
 does?

Continuing the series of posts on the new creation begun here, here, and here, we move on to Paul’s reference to the "new man" in Ephesians 4.

Here Paul explicitly links the passing away of the old creation and the arrival of the new to the death and resurrection of Christ. The phrase καινη κτισις, here translated by the NASB as "new creature," is rendered as "new creation" in Galatians 6. One might say that each new creature in Christ participates in the more comprehensive new creation.