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Our Creator Redeemer: An Introduction to Biblical Covenant Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much is at stake in evangelical Christian theology when considering “the covenants”—Old Testament and New Testament. Theologically, how do we align the concerns of a popular conservative Christian culture that may rightly worry about the place of the Ten Commandments in the public square with a message that often seems to stress that those same commandments have all been nailed to the cross? Is...

the Ten Commandments. Thus the trend to legalism was born in Judaism. Both Jewish and Christian Bible scholars are unanimous in their judgment that the translation of Torah by law is inadequate and represents an impoverishment of its Hebrew meaning. The Decalogue does not have the nature of an abstract lawcode.]12 The Ten Commandments themselves teach that they are not abstract law. The Preamble declares emphatically who this Lawgiver is: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out
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