What is your understanding of the New Covenant?
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First... lets define the term: Covenant...By definition, a covenant is a mutual obligation.  It is a contract, an agreement with terms and obligations that bind both parties.  \n\nToday we legalize a contract by signing our signatures to it... in ancient days, covenants were legalized by the shedding of blood of a sacrificial animal.  The Hebrew said that they "cut a covenant" and when the blood was shed the contract became binding upon both contracting parties.  \n\nWhen Abraham was commanded to take Isaac and sacrifice him, it was a test... but a ram was given by God in Isaac's place to complete the covenant between God and Abraham. \n \nWhen Jesus shed his blood, a new contract between God and human beings, a gospel covenant, was put into place and made valid and binding for all those who have agreed to its terms.  \n\nOur covenant is a covenant of FAITH...To give our love to God the Father as taught by Jesus.  Thereby we are free from having to shed blood to validate that covenant because Jesus, the Christ did it for us... All we have to do is form a partnership in our FAITH with God as taught by Jesus, the Christ thereby exchanging the burden of our sins for the obligation to love God and each other and to do the very best we can.  \n\nWhat does God give to us... forgiveness and the promise of eternal life in His kingdom, as earned for us by Jesus's shedding of his blood for us.\n\n\nThis is the NEW COVENANT that Jesus, the Christ gave to us.  We do this by having FAITH in God through Jesus... REPENTANCE and keep trying to ot correct our faults... BAPTISM... the symbolic ordinance which conveys the removal of guilt in our inperfections... RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT... the source and path from where our strength to live a better life flows from.\n\nAnd as Jesus taught... this covenant is based upon our attitudes and desires that motivate our hearts to fulfill this covenant.  This is the NEW COVENANT as I understand it!
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Yes, I have. I think it's completely wrong to think that the Jews have to keep the law while we have to believe in Jesus. Jeremiah 31 says that God would make a completely new covenant with the Jews that would be different than the one he made when he brought them out of Egypt. Therefore, there is only one true covenant, and that's the New one --- Christianity.
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Hi Ben so happy that you have found the Lord,and yes you cannot really understand the Old Testament writings untill you have come to believe and know Jesus as your Saviour, and when you do this His Spirit of truth reveals the mysteries to you.
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well according to this I will be fine\n\nExodus 34:27 Genesis 17:7 Exodus 6:5 Exodus 34:10 Leviticus 26:9 and of course Leviticus 26:44 \n\nas for hell are you sure you know what it is?
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Hebrews 8:13 In speaking of an old covenant which is to vanish, that is the covenat he had mad with the israelites,he now makes a new covenant, the first one is now obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.\n\n1Corinthians 13:8 looked forward to the perfect word of God, after which time prophecies, tongues, and words of nowledge would pass away.
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Salvation for the Old Testament believers was the same as it is today for the New Testament believers.\nBy grace through faith in the coming Messiah (OT), and by grace through faith in the Messiah who came, and will return (NT).
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Since there is no original copy of the OT present today, no one knows what was changed and altered.\n\n\nIsa 29:15  You are in for trouble, if you try to hide your plans from the LORD! Or if you think what you do in the dark can't be seen. \nIsa 29:16  You have it all backwards. A clay dish doesn't say to the potter, "You didn't make me. You don't even know how." \n\n(JPS)Isa 29:16   O your perversity! ...\n\n(KJV+)  Surely your turning of things upside down...\n\n\n\n2Co 11:13  Anyway, they are no more than false apostles and dishonest workers. They only pretend to be apostles of Christ. \n2Co 11:14  And it is no wonder. Even Satan tries to make himself look like an angel of light. \n2Co 11:15  So why does it seem strange for Satan's servants to pretend to do what is right? Someday they will get exactly what they deserve.
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My most enjoyable word/study program so far has been reading the Acts of the Apostles, and the letters of Paul by myself, for the first time with understanding. \nI recently purchased a NIV Bible that has commentary running through it. Because it is written in everyday language (with no 'thee' or 'thou' running through it) it is much easier for me to understand.\nI learned about the special nature of Jesus. That he is the perfect high priest to represent us to God. Jesus, because he was human, knows firsthand the temptations we suffer through daily, and he can help us to overcome them. Jesus also conquered the world and death, by dying with the ultimate act of love for us, and raising himself from the dead, to assure us of everlasting life with Him.
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There is no "old Covenant," because there is no new one.\n\nBut if you mean the Prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures, then what they said is From Gd.\n\nFor example, Ezekiel. The whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about the idea that no one can die for someone else's sins. This chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us.\n\nI also like Hosea, for example Hosea 11:9, where he said, "For I am Gd and not a man."\n\nI also love Jonah. In Jonah, the People of Ninevah do three things in order to be forgiven by Gd. They fast, they pray for forgiveness, and they stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgave them!\n\nJonah 3:7-10 And he caused it to be proclaimed \nand published through Ninevah, by the decree \nof the King and his nobles, saying, Let \nneither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste \nanything; let them not feed nor drink water; \nbut let man and beast be covered with \nsackcloth, and cry mightily unto Gd; yea, let \nthem turn every one from his evil way, and \nfrom the violence that is in their hands. Who \ncan tell if Gd will turn and repent, and turn \naway from his fierce anger that we perish not? \nAnd Gd saw their works, that they turned from \ntheir evil way; and Gd repented of the evil, \nthat he had said that he would do unto them; \nand he did not do it.\n\nPlease notice that Jonah tells us that Gd saw their WORKS, their deeds, how they turned from their evil ways, and Gd forgave them. It does not say that Gd saw their blood sacrifice, they never offered one. It does not say that Gd forgave them because they had the right faith, but rather it says that Gd forgave them because of their deeds!\n\nSo, yes, the Prophets who spoke as Gd instructed are wonderful!
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Nice book. (If you’re a sadist)\n\n\n(edit)\nWhy would the old testament be in the book if this god decided to change his cruel, voilent and hatefull ways. Then you shouldn't present the old testament to me. If I tell you "Hey man, here is the word or GOD, the creator of all the universe! He is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present!!!! ..But why then is there a part in his word that doesn't apply to our time?? I thought he is all-present which would mean his word will be timeless.
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Interesting question. \n\nOdd, how in the Old Testament that God is portrayed as vengeful and angry, and in the new, he suddenly seems to change his mind...
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the old testament is fantastic, and the new is not nearly the same without it, in fact it is weak and unpowerful without the O.T however Christianity hinges on the person of Jesus, how he dismantled Judaism and fulfilled its every pillar. So, because of Jesus I say the New, but with reservation
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i'm pretty sure you know the Christian view... this is something i've been thinking about a good bit lately - Genesis talks about 'when a man leaves his parents and basically takes a wife... they live together and become one.. sorry - paraphrasing i dont like... i'll add more as i research\nI'm curious more because of the jewish prophecy concerning the messiah; of a virgin, yet of the line of David. \n& my head hurts.
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I know I am certainly looking forward to the time when this is fulfilled 100% earthwide.\n\nOf course I am enjoying this condition now in the Spiritual paradise God's people enjoy today, just as prophesied to occur IN THE FINAL PART OF THE DAYS mention in the first couple of verses of that chapter.\n\n"And it must occur in the final part of the days that the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream. And many nations will certainly go and say: “Come, you people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem." - Micah 4:1, 2; Isaiah 2:2, 3.
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I think there's a lot to be said for the ideas - in books like Dallas Willard's "Divine Conspiracy" and NT Wright's new one "Simply Christian" that we will have a job to do in the afterlife.\n\nIn other words, I think we will be, in some sense, responsible for the new creation. I'm thinking, in terms of Bible references, of places where Jesus tells the parable of the talents, or where Paul talks about people getting in "as through fire." \n\nNT Wright is very interesting to read in this regard. He points out that many of the references to the afterlife hint at us being brought back to a renewed earth, with the New Jerusalem almost being lowered down to this earth - this renewed creation. It sounds weird to you, I am sure, if you are used to thinking of the afterlife as our soul going up to Heaven. But if you read the Bible with this new way of looking at it, so much makes sense.\n\nSo, I think that, based on what we do here, how long we are Christians and what we do with that time we are given, we will have more or less responsibility for God's creation after death. Remember, Jesus' woe sayings - he hinted that it works that way in Hell, as well. He basically hints that there are layers, or degrees of both punishment and reward. That's how I see it.
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Here is the answer....\n\nCall to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).  (Jer 3:33 AMP)\n\nSOme thing, brother, are shown us by God.  Seek out Him for what it means.  The you will have the treasure.\n\nI cannot understand it either...but there has been many things in scripture I did not understand that He revealed to me as I sought Him.  Just be patient. Maybe do a little digging.
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Read the book of Revelations with a concordance. There's mentions of "the dragon of the East". And there's referrences of Assyrian armies attacking Israel. All in all, it's not a pretty picture for the future of our world.