Who doesn’t love new stuff? I love new shoes, new books, new music albums, new movies, and I really like the new iPhone (no, I don’t have one). New is the new new, or, to say it another way, our hearts long for the new and it’s always been that way.
Murray Harris, in his commentary on 2 Corinthians, writes that “The theology of the NT—or indeed Pauline theology—could be written around this theocentric concept of ‘newness’” (p. 433).
In the new era brought by Christ, there is—
Indeed he does, and in a very permanent and non-consumerist way.
Miscellanies
Murray Harris, in his commentary on 2 Corinthians, writes that “The theology of the NT—or indeed Pauline theology—could be written around this theocentric concept of ‘newness’” (p. 433).
In the new era brought by Christ, there is—
- new wine of the new age (Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37–38)
- new covenant (Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 11:25; 2 Cor. 3:6; Heb. 8:8, 13; 9:15; 12:24)
- new creation/creature (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15)
- new man/humanity (Eph. 2:15; 4:24; Col. 3:10)
- new song of redemption (Rev. 5:9; 14:3)
- new name for believers (Rev. 2:17; 3:12)
- new commandment of love (John 13:34; 1 John 2:8)
- new wine of the heavenly banquet (Mark 14:25)
- new heaven and new earth (Rev. 21:1; 2 Pet. 3:13)
- new Jerusalem (Rev. 3:12; 21:2)
Indeed he does, and in a very permanent and non-consumerist way.
Miscellanies
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