Scripture Queries and Answers: The New I and the New Man

 
Q. 5. Can you understand a distinction being made between the new I and the new man, and would you say that the former is spoken of as dead, and the latter not? Does scripture use the expression new I at all?
Α. 5. I can understand the distinction, " the new 1" being the soul as now born again, but referring to what was, " the new man" being only what is by and in Christ. But metaphysics are best avoided in christian teaching.