IN GRANITE OR INGRAINED?

What the Old and New Covenants Reveal about the Gospel, the Law, and the Sabbath

Skip MacCarty

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ISBN 978-1-883925-57-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

MacCarty, Skip.

In granite or ingrained?: what the Old and New Covenants reveal about the Gospel, the Law, and the Sabbath / Skip MacCarty.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-883925-57-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Covenant theology. 2. Sabbath--Biblical teaching. 3. Covenants--Religious aspects--Seventh-day Adventists. 4. Seventh-day Adventists--Doctrines. I. Title.

BT155.M23 2007

231.7′6--dc22

2006038830

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Dedicated to

Dwight K. Nelson

Boss, Colleague, Mentor, Friend for twenty years and counting

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Core Truth of the Covenant(s)

Chapter 2: The Universality of the Covenant(s)

Chapter 3: How God Defined the New Covenant

Chapter 4: New Covenant DNA in the Old Covenant

Chapter 5: How the Old and New Covenants Differ

Chapter 6: The Two Covenants in History and Experience

Chapter 7: Historical and Experiential Applications...

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About In Granite or Ingrained?: What the Old and New Covenants Reveal about the Gospel, the Law, and the Sabbath

Popular claims about the Old and New Covenants have diminished the gospel and narrowed the faith and spiritual life of millions of Christians. Those claims have introduced confusion about what it truly means to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” In In Granite or Ingrained? What the Old and New Covenants Reveal about the Gospel, the Law, and the Sabbath, Christians will see a dynamic element of the gospel in the profound relationship between love and law. They will, perhaps for the first time, understand the apparent dichotomy of old and new covenants in the New Testament. In the process, they will be confronted with a powerful appeal and an unmistakable warning.

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