Sentences with phrase «other covenants established»

For our purpose, it is sufficient that we are able to establish that outside the Mosaic and Christian covenants are other covenants established by God within which non-Jews and non-Christians could be saved and perfected without their necessarily accepting the Jewish or Christian faith, following its rituals, commandments and source of revelation.

Not exact matches

He applied his own theory about justification as establishing a covenant of grace to the marriage union, and argued that «God draws a husband and wife into a covenant relationship with each other.»

In the one case it is the principle that, in each of a series of succeeding ages, God has tested his people in terms of their obedience to a particular form of his revelation; in the other, it is the proposition that God's salvation is divinely initiated and established, that it is the same salvation throughout the Bible, and that it is the notion of covenant which articulates this.

But the parent - child relationship differs from the parents» relation to each other in this respect: while the parents entered into a joint covenant of mutual dedication, the parent - child relationship was established by the parents» intention and action without any possibility of the child's knowledge or consent.

Jeremiah spoke of a «new covenant» which God would establish the other side of the disaster which he saw approaching.