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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...

had a “built-in planned obsolescence” and were therefore called in the Hebrews Letter “copies” or “shadows of the good things” to come, “not the realities themselves” (Heb. 9:23; 10:1).28 The Hebrews writer challenges his readers: “If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come—one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? For when there is a change
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