Correct.
But
you did not learn Christ in this way, 21
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in
Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that,
in reference to your former manner of life, you lay
aside the old self, which is being corrupted in
accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and
put on the
new self, which in the likeness of God has been
created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Ephesians 4:20-24 (NAS)
When we put off the "old self," and put on
the "new self" we are "conformed"
to or
"transformed" into the image of God, being
righteous and holy. Consider these scriptures:
"But
we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror
the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image from glory to glory, just as from the
Lord, the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NAS)
"...just as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and blameless before Him in love." Ephesians
1:4 (NAS)
"and put on the new self, which
in the likeness of God has been created in
righteousness and holiness of the truth." Ephesians
4:24 (NAS)
"See how great a love the
Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be
called children of God; and such we are. For this
reason the world does not know us, because it did
not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God,
and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We
know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him,
because we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone
who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself,
just as He is pure." 1 John 3:1-3 (NAS)
Man was created in the image of God; having
intelligent thought, a soul, a spirit and being pure
and holy. When does man lose this image of purity
and holiness?
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