Although I take Hebrews as holy scripture I do not accept every word of it as the very words of God.
That being said;
I don't think the Old Covenant was at fault, we are the ones at fault.
The New Covenant is a blood payment to reinstate the Old Covenant with the exception being; the Old Covenant is made New by being placed in our hearts through the Spirit of Christ.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Mark 2:22
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins".
You don't think the Old Covenant was at fault, yet within the same breath, you state that you don't accept every word of the New Testament as being the word of God, Hmmmm..........interesting!
Do you know what you have just disclosed?
You place the gospel of Jesus Christ as inferior and fallible as compared to the Old Testament, which means that you have chosen to be judged according to the law and not according to grace.
Since you give credence to the old covenant under the Mosiac law, then I believe that by you admitting that you place your hope in the Old Covenant, then you should be justifiably judged under the law.
Please listen, you can't have your right foot in the law and the left foot in grace, you are either for grace 100% or for the mosaic law 100%. In which case since you have admitted that your preference is to fall under the law, then that would differentiate my salvation under grace as a Christain, compared to yours. How can you say that you follow Jesus under the blood covenant of grace, when you have clearly made your preference known to men?
The old covenant was not made new, it was annulled and your wrong interpretation of Jeremiah 31:31-34, is a mute point. However I will have to refute it based on truth, integrity and honesty of being fair to the author who wrote it. I believe that you have put words in the Old Testament author's mouth that he never intended to convey, by deliberately misrepresenting him.
Hebrew 8:7-13 is the apostolic commentary of Jeremiah 31:31-34, where the author writes....
7For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
8But God found fault with the people.
13By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
However since you believe that your testimony trumps the 1st century apostolic Jewish church's testimony, then I must question your motives, especially when you tried to mislead me and others, in your previous post, when you said that the temple sacrifices in the future newly built temple will only be done in remembrance and not for salvation purpose.
It is my duty as a follower of Christ Jesus to bring you to light of what you said and how you easily write off the 1st century apostolic Jewish church, by declaring the fallibility of the Hebrew's writer. Hebrews is written with authority and control of all Jewish members of the church in Jerusalem. If the Hebrews writer erred, then it would not be authorised by the church as a control document. Since we have many copies of this letter with the apostolic seal on them, then it would confirm its authority and validity as authentic doctrine, that is approved by the church in Jerusalem.
But let me just also refute you on your misrepresentation of the Old Testament author.
Isaiah 28:15-18
15You boast, “
We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
The above declaration from Isaiah is for Jews who continue with the Old Covenant of death and therefore make a lie their refuge, by continuing to practise falsehood.
What does Isaiah have to say as far as salvation is concerned....and how can two major prophets be in disagreement, if we are to entertain your misrepresentation of Jeremiah 31:31-34.
See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
You see the gospel of Jesus Christ is the tested and precious cornerstone that is the sure foundation of God's spiritual temple, who are the body of believers, that is, the living stones.
Here we have THE gospel and the one and only path to salvation, that was not previously made available to the ancient old covenant Israelites, who were bound under the covenant WITH death, which is the law, that stated every one has fallen short of the law and is condemned to death. (Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3:23).
Isaiah doesn't stop there.....
18Your covenant with death will be annulled;
your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
I am quite concerned at the agenda that Messianic's have and if you are anything to go by, when you make statements like these.....
The New Covenant is a blood payment to reinstate the Old Covenant with the exception being; the Old Covenant is made New by being placed in our hearts through the Spirit of Christ.
Two statements made by you, that denigrates our Lord and the payment with his life that he made on the cross at Calvary, in annulling the covenant of death, that was the mosaic law. Christ freed us from the mosaic law and it's ordinances and you said that his blood was shed, to give credence to the covenant with death, in a way to ratify it. This, if I may say so, is intentional blasphemy.
Then you emphasise that the old covenant with death was made knew by his blood, which totally misrepresents the Old Testament major prophets and calls God a liar. The Spirit of Christ is not founded on the old covenant practices and therefore, to say that the sacrifice of Christ for the forgiveness of sins, once and for all, is to reinstate the old covenant with death, and continued old covenant Jewish sacrificial system in a newly built temple in the future, is blasphemy that is against the Holy Ghost. In fact the Holy Ghost dwells in his own temple made without human hands, how could another temple be built with human hands and for you to make insinuations that the Spirit is conspiring with Messianic's, to build a physical temple outside of the temple of the body of believers, the living stones that he came to built the spiritual temple and the only temple that is to be built, on the cornerstone Christ Jesus.
Your agenda is in fact another gospel that is outside of the scope of the Christian Faith.
There is no ifs or buts, your intention is to undermine the gospel of Jesus Christ and I have proven it with evidence.
