Reformation Monk
Puritan Board Freshman
My prayer partner ( reformed Presbyterian ) and I ( reformed baptist ) are slowly going over the covenants.
So I am now getting a better sense of the distinctions on Covenantal views between the two denominations.
But I was just hoping that maybe I could get some better clarification here.
First of all though; I want to make it clear that I am trying very hard here to stay with just reformed views; no dispensationalism and or federalism or new covenant theology please.
One of the things I started to discover is his view on the Covenant of Grace as like a flower opening up. He is also preferring to see both the New and Old Testament as the Covenant of Grace. Or I should say that he likes to use the term of Covenant of Grace rather then use the term "New Covenant."
So when I tend to use the term New Covenant and when I tend to make a distinction between a New Covenant to the Old Covenant, he tends to want to redirect me to the Covenant of Grace language.
I understand why he is doing this but here is my only problem with that.
Hebrews 12:24
all of Hebrews 8
Let me back track a little here.
I've heard comments from some Reformed Presbyterian preachers that they don't really consider Reformed Baptists truly "Reformed" because they don't consider them to be covenantally theological.
Now I realize that these are erroneous accusations. First of all being "reformed" is a whole lot more then just covenant theology. But I'm just mentioning that because it demonstrates that there is a clear difference in the covenantal theological views between the two.
Would you say that Reformed Baptist's hold to a more of a discontinuity of sorts between the Old and New?
So I am now getting a better sense of the distinctions on Covenantal views between the two denominations.
But I was just hoping that maybe I could get some better clarification here.
First of all though; I want to make it clear that I am trying very hard here to stay with just reformed views; no dispensationalism and or federalism or new covenant theology please.
One of the things I started to discover is his view on the Covenant of Grace as like a flower opening up. He is also preferring to see both the New and Old Testament as the Covenant of Grace. Or I should say that he likes to use the term of Covenant of Grace rather then use the term "New Covenant."
So when I tend to use the term New Covenant and when I tend to make a distinction between a New Covenant to the Old Covenant, he tends to want to redirect me to the Covenant of Grace language.
I understand why he is doing this but here is my only problem with that.
Hebrews 12:24
all of Hebrews 8
Let me back track a little here.
I've heard comments from some Reformed Presbyterian preachers that they don't really consider Reformed Baptists truly "Reformed" because they don't consider them to be covenantally theological.
Now I realize that these are erroneous accusations. First of all being "reformed" is a whole lot more then just covenant theology. But I'm just mentioning that because it demonstrates that there is a clear difference in the covenantal theological views between the two.
Would you say that Reformed Baptist's hold to a more of a discontinuity of sorts between the Old and New?