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Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil Hi Don,
The major flaw of your argument is the assumption that the NC did not start being fulfilled right after Jeremiah's prophecy. This is what the author of Hebrews tells us. He said that when Jeremiah uttered those words hundreds of years ago then, at that time, he made the first covenant pointless, and whatever is pointless is fading away. | Hey Paul,
I'm not sure I understand your statement here. So, correct me if I'm totally missing it, but are you concluding that the NC started after Jeremiah's words? You use words as THEN and AT THAT TIME to make your point on WHEN something occurred.
Thanks for your posts. I'm looking into these issues with increasingly different understandings as you guys post. |
Hello Andrew,
I would simply say that the NC is a much broader concept that Jer. 31:31-34. As Baptist Carl Hotch points out in his book on the NC, which Fred Malone cites approvingly, we must piece together, inductively, all the OT prophecies regarding the NC in order to arrive at a doctrine about it. So, I would say, and many of my reformed baptists friends agree with me here, there were elements of the NC being fulfilled to the exiles, though the grandness and fulness of the NC will only come once the visible and invisible match, in the New Heavens and Earth.