ktisis (n). -- Fabrication, creation (as something from something else).
Key verse -- 2 Corinthians 5:17. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
Thoughts on ktisis -- When you become a Christian, the scars of your old life don't really disappear. There are still consequences of past mistakes to be endured. What happens in conversion is God takes the old parts and makes something new with them. It no longer matters where the parts came from; what matters is how they will be used going forward.
Whether God makes His saints out of gold or dirt, what makes them saints is not the material He uses, but the fact that it's Him who made them.
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