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Can one hold to a NCT viewpoint and stay Reformed then?
If not, would they now be calvinist only?
Is the basic issue here then the idea that the Mosaic Law was meant to continue throughout both Covenants, or that God had that for national isreal under Old one, and that we are under the "law of Christ?"
But would not in actuallity both agree that the moral stadards of God still are in effect as to right/wrong?
The latter. NCT is not reformed as it is not endorsed in the confessions. It sees significantly less continuity between the Old and New Testaments than the confessions allow.
NCT approach to "law" seems thoroughly prescriptive. Some proponents might allow there to be some natural or constitutional/creational demands standing against murder or theft. But in general, even moral law (as the Reformed Confessions describe it) appears under NCT to be divinely dictated according to a covenant. Such a stance views old covenant Israel as under a completely unique law vis-a-vis the rest of the world. The rest of the OT world languishes in lawlessness. They don't simply suffer natural ills or savage cruelties; but they actually lack a universal or locally reliable moral code, since none of them are in covenant with God.So NCT would be stating pretty much that the Mosaic Law was administered just to Israel by God under Old Covenant, and was now replaced under the New One?
Them would seem to be closer to Dispensational viewpoints regarding the law and Christians than regular Covenant Theology?
I honestly think many of them begin by throwing out the Sabbath and then realize they must also throw out the rest of the Decalogue in order to be consistent.
I honestly think many of them begin by throwing out the Sabbath and then realize they must also throw out the rest of the Decalogue in order to be consistent.
We do not throw out the Sabbath, but was not that not just to isreal though, as we not observe Sunday as the Lord's day?
7. As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, by God's appointment, be set apart for the worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath to be kept holy unto him, which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week, and from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which is called the Lord's day: and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished. ( Exodus 20:8; 1 Corinthians 16:1, 2; Acts 20:7; Revelation 1:10 )
8. The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations, but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy. ( Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15-22; Matthew 12:1-13 )
Would not the Law of Christ though by definition include the Commandments of God, as Jesus Himself was the Law giver to Moses, so would he not reflect and retain that Law in regards to how God upholds morality?