Altså kender vi fra nu af ingen rent menneskeligt. Og selv om vi har kendt Kristus rent menneskeligt, så gør vi det nu ikke længere. Altså: Er nogen i Kristus, er han en ny skabning. Det gamle er forbi, se, noget nyt er blevet til! Men alt dette skyldes Gud, 2 Kor 5


Dette ene vil jeg have at vide af jer: Fik I Ånden ved at gøre lovgerninger eller ved at høre i tro? Er I så uforstandige? I begyndte dog i Ånden, vil I nu ende i kødelighed? Er alt det sket med jer til ingen nytte – hvis det da virkelig var til ingen nytte? Han, der giver jer Ånden og gør undergerninger iblandt jer – gør han det, fordi I gjorde lovgerninger, eller fordi I hørte i tro? Gal 3


Om Paul's Spirit-Christology:

it is not the spirit of the man Jesus of Nazareth that makes him jeg Christ, but that it is the Spiritual-Presence, God in him, that possesses and drives his individual spirit. This insight stands guard against a Jesus-theology which makes the man Jesus the object of Christian faith. This can be done in seemingly orthodox terms, as in Pietism, or in humanist terms, as in theological liberalism. Both distort or disregard the Christian message that it is Jesus as the Christ in whom the New Being has appeared. And they contradict Paul's Spirit-Christology, which emphasizes that "the Lord is the Spirit" and that we do not "know" him according to his historical existence (flesh) longer, but only as the Spirit who is alive and present. This saves Christianity from the danger of a heteronomous subjection to an individual. The Christ is Spirit and not law.