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Why Is the New Covenant Better?
How does that covenant differ from God's previous covenant with ancient Israel?
by Gary Smith
The New Covenant is "a better covenant, which was established on better promises," claims Hebrews 8:6 (emphasis added throughout). Why is the covenant that governs Christians better than the covenant God made with the nation of Israel? What are the "better promises" in the New Covenant, and what makes them better than those in the covenant made at Sinai, called "old" in verse 13 ?
Verse 7 notes that there was a fault with the Old Covenant, otherwise there wouldn’t have been a need for the new. What was the fault?
Much is at stake on this determination because many believe that the fault with the Old Covenant was with the law, the commandments of God.
So, when verse 13 states that the New Covenant made the first "old" (King James Version, New English Bible, Phillips Modern English, Today’s English Version) or "obsolete" (New King James Version, New International Version, New Revised Standard Version, New American Standard Bible), many believe the New Covenant replaced or supplanted the law with grace and faith. This line of reasoning leads many to conclude that observing the weekly Sabbath and annual Holy Days and tithing and distinguishing between clean and unclean meats have been rendered obsolete by the New Covenant and therefore are not necessary for Christians.
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