Proclaimer Blog
The continuity of the covenants
A helpful lunchtime conversation recently with our resident Hebrews expert, Dr Jonathan Griffiths. I love PT lunchtimes: very eclectic! Anyway, this one was on the continuty of the covenants. How does the new relate to the old? Dr J suggested to me that you have to fundamentally decide whether your position is one of discontinuity, in which case the question you ask is "what does continues?" or continuity in which case you ask "what does not continue?" Either way, you've got to establish a theological starting point. Personally, it seems Hebrews 8 suggests strongly that the former is the right approach.