You are right I am unable to agree with you on any point. I base my opinion of your perceptions on your posts; your religion is that the prophets do not know what they are saying, are murderers and thieves; and on one word "new" you cast out what God has established and replace it with the epistles of Paul and an imaginary new covenant.
<<<Now you presume Jeremiah did not understand the word "new" he used in v 31. For your idea to be true Jeremiah had to use another word. The possibilities are chadash pronounced "khä·däsh'" and chadash pronounced "khä·dash'." One must look closely to see the difference. I know full well you disagree, but then since I have presented the same in a prior post on this thread without being discredited, you must discredit with something other than opinion.>>>
Remember, it was you who said Jeremiah did not understand what he was saying and I presume you mean Jeremiah was dictating what God said. It is your interpretation/usage that I have a problem with. The word "new" could be replaced with a non-word like "dash" or even simply left out:
Jeremiah 31:29-32 (NKJV)
29 In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a dash covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Even though Jehovah speaks of new things the word new in front of covenant does not alter the meaning of what the Lord has said. On the basis of one word you gambol your salvation; on the basis of one word you cast out what God has established and replace it with a fictional covenant.
Yeah your idea here is most likely based on hear say or at best Mal 3:6. No I have not replaced it with a covenant you refuse to accept and therefore have no salvation (eternal life) because the Old Testament offers no such thing. Only the New Testament offers salvation (eternal life). And that comes only through Jesus the Door - Jn 10. Besides that Jesus is quoted as saying the new covenant is current - LK 22:20 the one you left out for cause.
Lets look at the covenant Jesus confirmed; The covenant is such that it can exist without anyone signing up. When people enter into the covenant it is enacted, or activated or initiated. The covenant first made with Moses was failed many times and restarted with a remnant that came out many times. This is the covenant that Jesus confirmed by fulfilling it; Jeremiah is talking about after the resurrection of the righteous Where a person will still be accountable for his iniquity; but it is still the completion of what God initiated at creation.
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Your perceptions of prophets and teachers sizes up your religion; the prophets of old did not make it up, they did not interpret it from scripture they received it directly from God. Assuming Jeremiah didn't understand what he was saying and the assuming you understand what he didn't say is a bit of a stretch.
Jeremiah did not know what the new covenant would consist of. There are no details in Jeremiah except it would be "not according to..." You insist it would be like the covenant issued at Mt Sinai (the law) only moved. There is absolutely nothing to so indicate in Jeremiah. My idea does not hang on just one word as you suggest. It is firmly backed by the "not according to..." phrase. Jeremiah said exactly what God wanted him to say. Let's consider Heb 8:6-13 -
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also
he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For
if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Note the bolded blue.
The he in v 6 is Jesus established by the context of the chapter. This new covenant is established on better promises opposed to law. The new covenant is not a bilateral covenant requiring things of both parties like the old covenant issued at Mt Sinai as witnessed by Deuteronomy 28. There is only a single thing to be done by the participant of the new covenant - believe as established by Jn 3:16 and 5:24. The rest of what happens to those in this new covenant is a result of being led by the Spirit and not the law - Gal 5:18. You do not have to believe what Paul says if you do not wish to. You must believe what Jesus says though.
Other details of the new covenant you do not like are found in Jn 15:10 where the law is abrogated by Jesus (God the Son). We know that Jesus kept the law as required by Him being a Jew. Jesus self confesses this in 15:10. Jesus said keep His commandments. Jesus did not issue the 10 C's engraved on stone according to John in 1:17. It clearly states the law did not come by Him.
Now if you wish to stick us with the law (commandments) here is God the Father's commandment of the new covenant -
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. I Jn 3:23.
This above verse is very clear.
Now I have a question fro you since you claim the prophets knew what they were talking about. Moses prophesied in Gen 3:15 about the Redeemer (Jesus). If Moses knew it was Jesus why did he not say so?
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