THE ORIGIN OF THE ERROR The error of confusing these things came from the King James Version which called the first 39 books of the Bible the “Old Testament” and the last 27 books the “New Testament.” They could have called them “Part I” and “Part II.”.They could have even called them “the Law” and “the Gospel.” But the translators developed their terminology because in their mind “covenant” was the same thing as “Testament.” They even translated the Greek word for covenant as Testament. “For this
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