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Below is some background on the distinctions between Covenant Theology (CT) and Dispensationalism (D).

The following is adapted from views based on the study that appears in Richard P. Belcher's A Comparison of Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology (1986).

Description – CT
Covenant theology centers on one overall major covenant known as the covenant of grace. Some have called it the covenant of redemption. By many this is defined as an eternal covenant...

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Christ had to die for the following reasons:

1. God exists. (Gen. 1:1)
2. God is infinite. (Psalm 90:2, 147:5; Jer. 23:24)
3. God is holy. (Isaiah 6:3; Rev. 4:8)
4. God is righteous. (Neh. 9:32-33; 1 Thess. 1:6)
5. Therefore, God is infinitely holy and just.

6. Furthermore, God speaks out of the character of what He is. (Matt. 12:34)

7. God spoke the Law. (Ex. 20:1-17)

8. Therefore, the Law is in the heart of...

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Is Justification a One-Time Event?

Yes!

Justification is a judicial act of God (Romans 8:33), by which, on account of the meritorious work of Christ, imputed to (not infused into) a sinner and received by him through that faith which vitally unites him to his substitute and Savior, God declares that sinner to be free from the demands of the law, and entitled to the rewards due to the obedience of that substitute.

The error of assumed an infusion of justification...

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Forensic Justification and Sanctification

If there was a great material principle of the Reformation it was the doctrine of justification. The Reformers sought to correct the confounding of justification with sanctification dominant in the church at the time, stressing its legal character, and representing justification as an act of the free grace of God, wherein God pardons our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight, but does not change us inwardly. What emerged from the Reformation...

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Sanctification:

This post is the final entry of a series of posts, the most recent being:

The Lessons of the New Birth - Christian Forums

There is a difference between justification which follows regeneration and faith, and sanctification. Justification is a legal act of divine grace, affecting the judicial status of man, and sanctification is as a moral or re-creative work, changing the inner nature of man. Yet there is an inseparable connection between...

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