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This is a 7yo thread resurrected!

Talitha, in the Genesis account of creation, God said "let there be light" twice: once the first day, and the other on the fourth day. Without doing theological gymnastics debating the chronology of the creation story, clearly there are two kinds of light. One we depend for the seasons...

OP, you might want to recontextualize what you mean by "not suppose to be meditating"; off the top of my head I remember at least a dozen verses encouraging us to meditate in various ways, at various times.

I don't think he minds either way. There are things we used to believe that we no longer believe, and things we used to do that we no longer do, and vice versa, in our life's journey. He knows that.

SpiritPsalmist, Franky67, thank you so much for your prayers! I'm just finally getting back on the saddle, literally and figuratively. As a cyclist I have a 250km charity ride this wknd and my fitness level isn't optimum yet. And work has also piled up at the office that I need to take care...

Also add Rom 14:23, "......for whatsoever is not of faith is sin."

My apologies to the posters I didn't respond to....I caught pneumonia and just getting back to the real world.

Sorry Franky, the Abrahamic Covenant is not the same as the Mosaic Covenant. That's Exegesis 101.

Sure, let's use Paul's examples, reiterating one that I previously posted, and not the full text, simply for brevity: Having abolished in his flesh (Jesus) the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances..." Eph 2:15 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to...

Yes he does, but so does Jesus. One of the problems we face in western Christianity is that we view Scripture through a Greek or Roman mindset, then seen through the eyes of Augustine, and through our denominational backgrounds such that we sometimes unknowingly see Jesus through the eyes of...

It's not the 10, but nor is it the two.

Absolutely not. It's completely new. But unfortunately the understanding of most evangelical believers today. And just like an old automobile that's no longer made by the manufacturer, a whole industry has sprung up in the church making spare parts on something obsolete that's no longer...

No. While the root word of 2319 may be from Strong's 2318, why didn't Jeremiah simply use that instead? All the other Scriptural references of new as from 2319 is a new king arose, a new wife, a new offering, etc, not a renewed king, or a refreshed wife. The Scriptural references for new as in...

I would be more inclined to say that the two covenants are as different as darkness is to light also. Jer 31...The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their...

The passage does not contain the word "new", and I'm familiar with the Greek for new, but other passages such as in Heb 8 it's "kainos"....and your point being? (I think we're dancing around the same mountain, but from a different perspective.).

That's fine, but what's the thread about then?

Thanks. I'm not disagreeing with the validity of the Abrahamic covenant, but where does the New Covenant fit in then?

Put the context of your question as it relates to my post; or better, instead of leading me on, state your belief whether the God's covenant with Abraham as the same or different from the Mosaic covenant.

There seems to some confusion in this thread. The Abrahamic Covenant is not the same as the Mosaic Covenant (Old Covenant), and the two aren't interchangeable, especially semantically. Then another topic altogether are the differences between the Old and the New Covenant - and one of them is no...

Exactly! Wow.