Yes John. This is where the discussion really lies. The continuity issue is foufdational to NCT. I believe you and others who have labored for so long by God's grace have made this point very clear. Reading the Old in light of the New is so elemental. Thank you. Joe K. On Dec 5, 2004, at 9:49 AM, John Reisinger wrote: > One the major difficulties in discussing NCT is the idea of continuity > and > discontinuity. It seems to me this should be settled once for all as > follows. > (1) Carefully define your terms. > (2) If you are talking about two COVENANTS, and old and new, then > there is > 100% discontinuity. The Old Covenant, and everything it brought into > being > has been fulfilled and replaced. There is a radical new and total > different > in force. > (3) If you are talking about God's one unchanging purpose in sovereign > grace, then you have 100% continuity. The "new things" were predicted > and > have now come to pass. > (4) CT big mistake is confusing what it calls "the Covenant of Grace" > with > God's unchanging sovereign purpose. > > JGR > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JACKJEFF@...> > To: <soundofgrace@...> > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 9:07 PM > Subject: [soundofgrace] Re: a thesis - Jack to Joe T > > >> Joe T.: >> >> << I would like some input on the following thesis: >> >> The New Covenant can be viewed (at least in part) as a fulfilling of >> the > Old Covenant in behalf of a chosen people. >> >> >> I don't see any serious issues with that "thesis" so long as "at >> least in > part" doesn't get lost in the shuffle! In fact, you could remove the > parentheses, and the "at least", so that it reads, "The New Covenant > can be > viewed in part...", and I would have even less concern with it! >> >> >> Soli Deo Gloria, >> >> John T. "Jack" Jeffery >> >> -- >> Read the Sound of Grace pages at >> http://www.soundofgrace.com >> >> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... >> >> To view our online archive go to our web page at >> http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace >> >> >> >> > > -- > Read the Sound of Grace pages at > http://www.soundofgrace.com > > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... > > To view our online archive go to our web page at > http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace > > >