Creature

The umbrella under "creature" is built around two Pauline verses that describe what becomes of a person in Christ. In both, the UPDV renders the underlying expression as "new creation" rather than "new creature," and the topic is the renewal of the human being on the far side of conversion.

A New Creation in Christ

The first statement is built as a conditional with a sweeping consequence: "Therefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creation: the old things are passed away; look, they have become new" (2 Cor 5:17). The sentence contains three movements — being "in Christ," being "a new creation," and the passing of "the old things" so that what was old has "become new." The verse stands in an argument about reconciliation, and the new creation is the result for any person who is in Christ.

Circumcision Set Aside

The second statement is shorter and more polemical, and it occurs at the close of Galatians: "For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation" (Gal 6:15). The contrast is starkly drawn — circumcision and uncircumcision are placed on the same side of the line, and the new creation is set against them both. What carries the weight is not the body's mark or its absence but the new creation itself.

A Single Phrase, Twice Used

The two passages together hold the umbrella in a narrow shape. "New creation" is the same expression in both, and each verse sets it as the consequence of being in Christ — once in the language of transformation ("the old things are passed away; look, they have become new") and once in the language of contrast ("neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but"). Across both, the UPDV avoids the older "creature" phrasing and lets "new creation" carry the topic.