Since we have been crucified with Christ, we now have no legitimate right to relate to our old man. He’s dead and buried, so communicating with him is like the forbidden practice of talking with the dead. But here’s the good news. As we commune with God, our faith forces this Adamic zombie back into his watery grave (baptism) and invigorates us to live in the new creature we have now become in Jesus Christ. Let’s reject that old man and embrace the new man, for God is not the God of the dead but the living!