A new creation

So now we are considering 2 Corinthians 5:17 in regards to the doctrine of ancestral curses. Yesterday we considered that God has already punished the Lord Jesus for our sins and thus He would be unjust to punish us too for something our forefathers had done. Now let us consider that the above scripture says, "Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. " Firstly, in 1 Corinthians 15:45 Paul tells us,"The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit." For a believer in Christ the old man is dead (Romans 6). He or she is raised up to new life in Christ. For the Christian a change in descent has occurred. What was in Adam died, what is in Christ is new. Now when we look back at 2 Cor. 5:17 the passage says 'old things are passed away'. The verb 'pass' in passed away is in the aorist tense. It is a tense meaning single or completed action. It has happened. It is finished with. The verb 'become' is in the perfect tense. It means something that has happened in the past with continuing results. Thus for the believer, in God's eyes, what was in Adam is dead, what is in Christ is continuing into eternal life. If there was an ancestral curse in our lives in Adam- it has already been broken in Christ. He has already done the work through the cross! The man or woman who deserved to be cursed is dead. Christ Himself is now our head. (1 Corinthians 11:3) The doctrine that teaches that we, as believers can be cursed due to what our forefathers have done takes away from the finished work on the cross. Tomorrow I am going to look back at the curse in the Old Testament to see who actually curses us - God or Satan - the result is very interesting in view of what we have just been discussing. Bye for now.