#covenant

Theologically, the demand for “circumcision” can take many forms, even today. It appears whenever one thinks along these lines: “Faith in Christ is fine as far as it goes, but your relation to God is not really right and your salvation not adequate unless…” It does not matter how the sentence is completed. Whenever such fine print is introduced to qualify trust/faith, there is “circumcision,” and Paul’s defense of the adequacy of trust/faith can come into its own again. The Galatian situation is never far; in fact, it is all too familiar. ↗

— Leander E. Keck

#jesus-christ #new-covenant #new-testament #paul #faith

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#certain #controlled #countries #covenant #envisaged

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#being #community #covenant #first #god

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#clearly #covenant #grace #may #more

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#apostles #between #business #conceive #cotton

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#between #compact #covenant #death #exists

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#god #made #protective #regarded #restrictive

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#being #covenant #creation #fall #idea

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#came #covenant #eve #faith #her

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#children #covenant #even #gentiles #god