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Originally Posted by BaptistInCrisis  Rich, I'm curious as to why you said: Quote: |
The entire book up to this point is dealing with people that are really missing the boat on the basics of Covenant Theology.
| Are you wrapping up all the doctrinal teaching of the first few chapters of Hebrews in the cloak of Covenant Theology? I wonder whether taking such a large portion of scripture and describing it as "the basics of Covenant Theology" is missing the nuances of the text. I've been working through systematic theologies lately so your post comes at an appropriate time. |
I think a bit of it is a misapprehension of Covenant Theology. They're desirous to go back into Judaism and the author is building a case that Christ is better than the angels, than Moses, than Aaron, etc. He even notes that the people in the wilderness were just like them (from afar off) and heard the Gospel and how much worse will it be for them if they end up not believing. By Covenant theology I mean, at least that they're missing the object of even what the OT saints are about because the author builds his entire case about the perfection of the NC from OT passages themselves. There's nothing to go back to and that is the confusion I'm talking about. There's certainly more than Covenant theology there but the aim of the author is clearing up Covenant confusion in large measure.