Alright, so in Jeremiah 31 there's a promise of a new covenant; in what sense is the covenant of Jeremiah 31 actually new?
The list of things immediately after v.32 seem to already all be echoed in the old covenant, so is what makes the new covenant new not mentioned in Jeremiah 31?
@Birdie Personally I would understand v34 as referring to the coming of Jesus, as God becomes known in a new way and Jesus is the one that makes all forgiveness throughout history possible. I don't know for a fact that that's a consensus view in Reformed theology, but that's how I'd take it.
Right, that's more or less how I understood it as well (particularly in the light of Hebrews 8-10). Christ is the newness of the New Covenant, essentially.
And in that case, it ties in nicely with the last quote of my answer from John Frame; that the new covenant isn't some definitive dividing line but a new revealing of something God has been working out for a long time.
(I'm writing an historical fiction story.) Have there been cases of persecuted people who hid their wealth in a church? Who would they be? Who are they fleeing persecution from? Why were they being persecuted? Where did they try to escape to?
(I'm writing an historical fiction story.) Have there been cases of persecuted people who hid their wealth in a church? Who would they be? Who are they fleeing persecution from? Why were they being persecuted? Where did they try to escape to?
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