A CHANGE OF NATURE

[SeamusDelion]

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.


2 CORINTHIANS 5:17



When you receive Jesus Christ, are born again, and enter into God’s kingdom, you become a totally different individual. The change that occurs when you’re saved is more dramatic than the change that will occur when you die because then you already have a new nature and are a citizen of God’s kingdom. Death simply ushers you into God’s presence.
In his epistles, the apostle Paul says that when God transformed us, He gave us a new will, mind, heart, power, knowledge, wisdom, life, inheritance, relationship, righteousness, love, desire, and citizenship. He called it “newness of life” (Rom. 6:4). Some teach that when a person becomes a Christian, God gives him something new in addition to his old sin nature. But according to the Word of God, we don’t receive something new—we ourselves become new!

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Yes, but it is spiritual. Even though our spirits are regenerated in Christ Jesus and our nature is made Holy, our minds need to be renewed and transformed.
Romans 12:1: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Our sin laden bodies will be changed at the resurrection/ rapture into bodies like our Lord Jesus' body.

 

[Hieronymus]

Yes, kind of "already, but not yet".

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Yes, kind of "already, but not yet".

I don't know what you mean. Please elaborate.

 

[Phil W]

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.


2 CORINTHIANS 5:17



When you receive Jesus Christ, are born again, and enter into God’s kingdom, you become a totally different individual. The change that occurs when you’re saved is more dramatic than the change that will occur when you die because then you already have a new nature and are a citizen of God’s kingdom. Death simply ushers you into God’s presence.
In his epistles, the apostle Paul says that when God transformed us, He gave us a new will, mind, heart, power, knowledge, wisdom, life, inheritance, relationship, righteousness, love, desire, and citizenship. He called it “newness of life” (Rom. 6:4). Some teach that when a person becomes a Christian, God gives him something new in addition to his old sin nature. But according to the Word of God, we don’t receive something new—we ourselves become new!

That scripture is the perfect one to show the "double-nature" folks are incorrect.
The old nature is part of the "old things have passed away,".
In league with the parable about new wine and old bottles, plus the parable about new cloth patching old garments shows that ALL the old man must be replaced.
God's Spirit will not reside in a polluted "temple".
Thankfully, God has given us the means to kill the old man, with its nature, and be "raised with Christ to walk in newness of life". (Rom 6:3-6)