ServantOfKing
Puritan Board Freshman
I have been reading both in Jeremiah & Hebrews and also through "The Christ of the Covenants" by O. Palmer Robertson.
I know I may be nitpicking here... but Robertson describes covenants with both Adam, Noah, & Abraham which have strong implications for the church today. And yet in Hebrews 9:18-19 it says in talking about the necessity of death for a covenant, "Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law... "
Basically, how does Covenant theology fit into the understanding of God's covenant with Moses as being the "first covenant?"
Also, I have been struggling with the portion of Jeremiah 31 quoted in Hebrews 8...
Is this referring to the invisible nature of the New Covenant but referring to that which is not necessarily true of every member of the visible administration of the New Covenant?
I know I may be nitpicking here... but Robertson describes covenants with both Adam, Noah, & Abraham which have strong implications for the church today. And yet in Hebrews 9:18-19 it says in talking about the necessity of death for a covenant, "Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law... "
Basically, how does Covenant theology fit into the understanding of God's covenant with Moses as being the "first covenant?"
Also, I have been struggling with the portion of Jeremiah 31 quoted in Hebrews 8...
Is this referring to the invisible nature of the New Covenant but referring to that which is not necessarily true of every member of the visible administration of the New Covenant?