Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 27): Summation (1)
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Covenant Theology and the Bible
In an article at TableTalk Stephen G. Myers writes,
Covenant theology seeks to use the biblically prominent covenants to inform our knowledge of God and of His work. Specifically, covenant theology contends that God has been working throughout history to gather His people to Himself through covenantal relationship.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 26)
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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology
12. CT is implicitly supercessionist in its eschatology.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 25)
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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology
11. CT interprets the Bible from an anthropocentric rather than a Theocentric point of view.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 24)
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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology
10. CT reads Christ into passages where He is plainly not in view and employs Him (particularly His first coming) as the lens through which Scripture must be understood.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 23)
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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology
9. Though they would consciously deny the charge, it is undeniable that CT ‘s way of reading the Bible (as above) creates a major problem philosophically in that it strongly implies that God equivocates. More seriously still, the manner of equivocation means that equivocation belongs to the essential nature of the Godhead.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 22)
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8. CT thus interprets the Bible with different rules of hermeneutics depending on the aforementioned presuppositions.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 21)
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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology
7. By allowing their interpretations of the NT to have veto over the plain sense of the OT this outlook creates massive discontinuities between the wording of the two Testaments. This is all done for the sake of a contrived continuity demanded by the one-people of God concept of the Covenant of Grace.
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Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 19)
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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology (4)
4. CT deals with everything it meets in the pages of Scripture using these false covenants.
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