colorful but invented identity. She heard about and saw the work of the living God, and she believed. Schaeffer elaborates many other areas where the continuity of truth is shown. God’s interest is not to test obedience in teaching bits and pieces of peculiar doctrines. The truth is a whole cloth, not a patchwork invention as people went along in the face of various experiences. Circumcision as the sign of God’s covenant with his people continues into baptism, both of which are neither magic nor