Finally Human Thoughts on being a person

Learning how to Die #1

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

-Jesus

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

- Paul

The New Testament speaks of following Christ as a new life. The former life is left behind and there is a cosmic shift in which one who choses to follow the way of Jesus is transformed. The writers commonly refer to 'death' of the old self, and the 'new birth' of a new individual.

Paul makes this statement:

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 5:5-11)

But my struggle is this: How do I die? Well, how do I make this 'death' idea meet reality?

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