Originally Posted by Meta4
When you say:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
Classic covenant theology says "new" means an expansion of the old covenant; a new universality and spirituality, but the essence of the old covenant remains the same.
By 'old covenant', are you referring to the Sinai covenant, or to the covenant of grace?
There is only one "covenant of grace" which was administered in different ways which progressively revealed through types and shadows the person and work of the Messiah and the redemption He was going to secure. Covenant theology teaches that circumcision was the 'sign of the covenant [or grace]' in the OT and baptism replaced it as the sign of the covenant [of grace] in the NT. Sinai was part, one aspect of the covenant of grace, but it wasn't THE covenant of grace in and of itself.

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