Part Two
Bibliology: 14 THE COVENANTS OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Bibliology: 14 THE COVENANTS OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
It
is the plain teaching of the New Testament that everyone who did not continue
in all things that are written in the book of the law was under the curse, and
it is equally plain that not one Israelite ever continued in all that the law
demanded. The conclusion is inescapable that all must have been under the curse
of the law. Did this mean, then, that all were lost? No, it could not, for it
is equally plain that many of the Old Testament saints were saved. What, then,
did the curse of the law mean? The law has a system of penalties, the extreme
one being death. Paul teaches that the law has dominion over a man as long as
he is alive, but that physical death frees one from the law (Romans 7:1-6). We have already shown that the
Israelites, by virtue of the Abrahamic Covenant, the Passover, and the Covenant
sacrifice were on redemption ground and were considered to be God’s chosen
nation and the people of God before ever the law was imposed upon them. Again,
Paul makes it plain that the Law, which was given 430 years after the promise
to Abraham, could not disannul the promise (Galatians 3:17). Therefore it should be clear that salvation under the
Dispensation of Law was upon the basis of the promise, and that while breaking
of the law might bring physical death, as it did in many cases, it could not
result in disannulling of the promise. Physical death is not necessarily synonymous
with spiritual death, even when it is visited as a penalty.
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