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Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments; Essays in Honor of S. Lewis Johnson, Jr. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perspectives on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments as it concerns theological systems, Mosaic law, salvation, hermeneutics, the people of God, and kingdom promises. Evangelicals agree that the Bible is God’s inerrant word. But we sometimes differ on how to relate the messages of the Old and New Testaments. Without a basic understanding of this crucial matter, it is difficult to...

failure under all circumstances and thus needs God.38 For example, after noting that each dispensation has a test and a failure, Norman Geisler asks for the point of all of this. He responds: The point may very well be that God is trying to accomplish several things through His plan for the ages. First, He wants to prove to the universe [of rational creatures] that creatures will always fail and bring evil [not good] on themselves when they disobey God’s commands. Second, and conversely, God wants
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