Which Covenant - New or Old (Mosaic)? For WHO? And WHEN?
There was very little confusion about these questions in the early Church. The Apostles worked out the issues surrounding these questions . You may be familiar with their conclusions - they are contained WITHIN the New Testament. The church that followed the Apostles had a UNIFORM opinion and a UNIVERSAL answer to these questions. There was no confusion until the 1800s when a NEW TEACHING emerged that began to question these issues. So, for literally 1800 years there was a single position amongst those who followed Jesus Christ and then a 'novel doctrine' emerged. What was the UNIFORM/UNIVERSAL opinion of the Apostles themselves and the Earliest Christians? It is summed up in this quote by the early Christian leader/theologian named Tertullian in AD207: “The epistle that we also allow to be the most decisive against Judaism, is that in which the Apostle [Paul] instructs the Galatians. For we fully admit the abolition of the ancient Law [of Moses] . We hold that it actually pro...