New man in Christianity: For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God. Colossians 3:3

The Epistle to the Colossians is probably one of the last letters written by Paul, while he was already in the city of Rome. This epistle was written to the church of Colossae primarily to combat numerous heresies that presented Christ as a prophet or an angel. And some of the themes of the Epistle to the Colossians appear to be a continuation of earlier epistles, such as the teaching on the subject of the new man in Christianity, and the importance of the sacrament of baptism, two themes expressed in Colossians but which seem to come from the letter to the Romans.
And the Epistle to the Colossians, after presenting Christ as the firstborn of creation and as head of the Church, teaches about the subject of that new man who, dead to sin, rises to a new life after baptism. And according to the thinking of the apostle Paul, this is a fundamental issue in Christianity, because understanding this change that Jesus demands of believers is understanding the spiritual depth of the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, the dominion or empire of the divine perfections.
This is why, when teaching about the sacrament of baptism, the apostle of the Gentiles wrote metaphorically: "For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God" Colossians 3:3. The apostle taught about a kind of metaphorical death to error, that is, to the old man, and a resurrection to a new spiritual life near to the perfection of the divine, to living the spiritual gifts inherited from God, and to making error an exception, not a habit, because whoever makes error a habit is a slave to sin. And the apostle Paul identified man's inclination to error with everything related with the earthly nature in man, that is why he also expressed: "You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immortality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed" Colossians 3:5.
And all this spiritual change in man, according to the epistle, must serve to achieve a greater purpose, the accomplishment of the new commandment, and so the apostle Paul taught with wisdom: "Clothe yourselves with love" Colossians 3:14.

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