Where our lives were marked by death because of sin, now they are marked by the life of Christ. His righteousness undoes our sinfulness. Who we really are as human beings is not defined solely by what God created us to be; nor is it defined by our sin. Rather, Jesus Christ defines our humanity. Our human being will be made complete when we become “like him” (1 John 3:2), remade in the image of his true humanity. Or as Paul puts it, “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven” (1 Cor. 15:49). In the truest sense, we are what we are
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