TheocraticMonarchist
Puritan Board Junior
In the midst of being newly married, in college full time, and working most of the week, I have been reading the occasional article of covenant theology. Since my church is newly reforming out of a 1st Baptist SBC and I come from a dispensational background I was hoping the some of you with more experience in the area of covenant theology could critique my progress in the area of the law and how it relates to us now. I know there are different views on the Law--Covenantal Reformed Baptist, Traditional Reformed, and Theonomist--so if you could identify your view and tell me what side you think I fall on it would help me out.
My understanding of the moral law is that it is an expression of the natural law—the law that all of mankind is under because of the covenant of works. The aspects of the Mosaic Law that deal with theocracy and ceremony are no longer binding. They serve to reveal to us the character of God and his purpose in Christ, but we are not to live under them. Since the covenant of works exists today alongside the covenant of grace and Moses’ moral law is an expression of the covenant of works, then it is applicable to those in the new covenant (not the moral living justifies,but that obedience shows our allegiance to Christ and is a natural result of the Spirit’s work in regeneration).
Thanks!
My understanding of the moral law is that it is an expression of the natural law—the law that all of mankind is under because of the covenant of works. The aspects of the Mosaic Law that deal with theocracy and ceremony are no longer binding. They serve to reveal to us the character of God and his purpose in Christ, but we are not to live under them. Since the covenant of works exists today alongside the covenant of grace and Moses’ moral law is an expression of the covenant of works, then it is applicable to those in the new covenant (not the moral living justifies,but that obedience shows our allegiance to Christ and is a natural result of the Spirit’s work in regeneration).
Thanks!