Category: Law/Gospel

The Sabbath Today

I never gave much thought that the Sab­bath is a bind­ing require­ment in the New Covenant era until I started attend­ing my cur­rent church. They hold a Sab­batar­ian posi­tion which says that the Sab­bath is a per­pet­ual ordi­nance for God’s peo­ple from the cre­ation of the earth to the new heav­ens and new earth. The posi­tion is largely found […]

Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology Contrasted

I keep get­ting asked by more and more by friends to explain Dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ism and Covenant The­ol­ogy (here­after DP and CT respec­tively). The dif­fer­ences are nuanced even within their own camps so I can’t pos­si­bly explain all the nuances in this short arti­cle, but I want to offer a sim­ple intro­duc­tion to the con­cepts at hand. Under­stand that I can’t […]

Why the Law Then? (Pt. 4)

The “New Man” of Eph­esians 2 In Eph­esians 2 Paul also gives a sim­i­lar les­son on the role of the Mosaic Law and its abol­ish­ment in the New Covenant and appear­ing of the Mes­siah. There­fore remem­ber that for­merly you, the Gen­tiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncir­cum­ci­sion” by the so-called “Cir­cum­ci­sion,” which is per­formed in […]