I’m reading “New Life in the Wasteland” by Douglas F. Kelly where he expounds on 2 Corinthians and the cost and glory of Christian ministry.

In the first chapter (Decaying Western Culture) in describing how modern man conforms truth to his/her desires he says,

“There are ultimately only two alternatives in the intellectual life. Either one conforms desire to the truth, or one conforms truth to desire.

How true that is of our culture – and I would add, how can we discuss truth if we have rejected any outside measure of truth? Paul Johnson, in his book The Intellectuals, demonstrates that many those ‘great’ thinkers since the 18th century enlightenment were driven by their lusts rather than by a thirst for truth!

Today we have a movement within the church that is more subtle, but with the potential for as great a harm. New Covenant Theology would assault the moral Law of God stating that the Old Testament moral Law doesn’t apply to the New Testament believer.

It seems to me that New Covenant Theology, in its attempts to make the Ten Commandments superseded by Christ’s ‘higher’ law, ends up suggesting that the Old Testament saints were saved by some sort of conformity to God’s moral law. Reformed Christianity rejects this ‘two covenant’ concept and affirms that the Old Testament saints were saved by grace the same as believers today are saved by grace – moreover, we believe that Christ came to fulfill the Law, not to abolish (or replace) the Law! Matthew 5:17-20

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