The Mosaic Covenant and Republication

[ABrauny]

Is the Mosaic covenant part of the covenant of grace or is it the covenant of works republished? I hope I worded that all correctly. Thanks for your time in responding.

 

[franky67]

Is the Mosaic covenant part of the covenant of grace or is it the covenant of works republished? I hope I worded that all correctly. Thanks for your time in responding.

I believe it is part of the covenant God made with Abraham, after all, same God, same people.

After Christ, it remained as the covenant of grace, because Galatians says Christ is the seed of Abraham.

 

[LuxMundi]

It is the CoW republished

 

[hedrick]

I think this is too inflexible a view. Some traditional Reformed want there to be a nice neat pattern of covenants. But I don't think Scripture is that way. God makes covenants all the time, but they overlap. God made covenants with both Abraham and Moses covering the same people. But the Jews clearly saw themselves as under both, and I'm not convinced they really saw them as separate. Paul saw Gentile believers as being grafted into Israel, and carrying out God's original intentions for them. Yet there is also a new covenant written in the heart, per Jer 31:31 and the words of Institution.

I'm not convinced that there is any more than one actual covenant, and it's based on both law and grace. It is reflected in a number of different covenant acts, lets call them.

 

[LuxMundi]

Either way, Christ is the climax of the covenants.

 

[flyff]

Money and health which important

 

[Monseigneur_Gentilhomme]

The majority of Reformed Theologians have understood it to be the Covenant of Grace until Kline. Horton and the folks at Westminster Cali follow in that direction. It's not a confessional issue, so it makes not to big of a difference, but two different covenants (one of works and one of grace) is what the confessions teach.

 

[Clare73]

Is the Mosaic covenant part of the covenant of grace or is it the covenant of works republished? I hope I worded that all correctly. Thanks for your time in responding.

Hi, guys,

I'm new here, but I'm not a youngster.

The Mosaic (Sinaitic/Old) Covenant was temporarily added to the covenant of grace made with Abraham.

The Jews misunderstood it as conditions for righteousness, which it was not.

Its purpose was to reveal the nature and character of God (holy), the nature and work of Christ (Savior), the nature of sin (spiritual uncleanness) and the nature of holiness (set apart, from sin).

The Sinaitic (Old) Covenant expired with Christ's death on the cross and was replaced with the New Covenant made in his blood.

 

[kenrapoza]

The Mosaic Covenant made at Sinai was essentially a republication of the Covenant of Works made with Adam, but it was part of the unfolding administration of the Covenant of Grace. In other words, God's Law is a revelation of God's will and character. We, as God's creatures, are obliged to submit to God's loving rule. Prior to the Fall, we had to ability to love God properly and keep His Law; after the Fall we no longer have the moral ability to uphold God's commandments (we are "Totally Depraved"). The Mosaic Covenant was a publication of God's Law in the form of the Ten Commandments. I don't want to say that it is a republication in the crass way of implying that God grabbed some tablets that He gave to Adam, dusted them off and handed them to Moses on the mountain. It was the same in substance, but it was in a form that was specific, or occasional, to that point in Redemptive-History, which begun with Covenant of Grace in Gen. 3.

 

[ReformedIsNotEnough]

The covenant of works existed only as long as man had a free will to perform the works necessary to received the blessings of such a bilateral covenant. The covenant of works, began and ended with Adam in the Garden of Eden. The covenant of Grace defines ALL of redemptive history from that point on. Note that even Abraham "Believed God and it was counted to him as righteous". Abraham certainly predates Moses and the law that God gave to His people. "Counted Righteous" is a pretty good definition for justification (at least in the forensic sense). Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and the New Covenant are all covenants of Grace. Ratified in different ways, but always "of Grace" which is not to say that "works" had no part in the covenant of grace (i.e. Mosaic Law). The bottom line is that GRACE and Grace ALONE defined how God chose a covenant community for Himself with HIS people every since Adam died as our Federal Head and passes his curse and condemnation on to us.

 

[Julian of York]

Ooops!
I thought REPUBLICATION referred to the 2012 Elections!
Sorry

JoY

 

[Judson]

if there is no works principle in the mosaic, that raises a lot questions for me:

why doesnt the covenant save ALL who are members of it? what does that say about the promises of God?
why is the mosaic administration repudiated in the new covenant if it encapsulated the fullness of God's grace? the NT does not repudiate the abuse of the law by the people but the law itself, because of its weakness.