*NEW/*RENEW - also see CREATE, TRANSFORM, GROWTH, PROGRESS, EVOLVE
The New Covenant (Testament) is call new for two reasons: first because Jesus has fulfilled the Old Covenant and second, because through this Covenant, sealed with blood of the Savior, the Christian already shares in God's kingdom where "all things will be made new." Rev 20:7 (ReadingOT2, p38)
He wil wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away. (Rev 21:4)
And how could I endure to be a man, if man were not also poet and reader of riddles and ... a way to new dawns. (p???, The Passion of the Western Mind)
Jesus' death had indeed been beneficial in some way: it had released a "new kind of life" and a "new creation" (Hist,p87). Jesus had been the first example of a new type of humanity. Not only had he done everything that the old Israel had failed to achieve, but he had become the new adam, the new humanity in which all human beings must somehow participate (Hist,p88).