Covenant Reformed News – January 2023 • Volume XIX, Issue 9
This article from Covenant Reformed News defends the superiority of the New Testament church's maturity under grace by contrasting it with the Old Testament church's immaturity under the Mosaic law (using Galatians 3:26 as the foundation). The author critiques movements such as Hebrew Roots, Christian Reconstructionism, and dispensationalism for attempting to restore Old Testament ceremonial and civil laws, arguing this represents a regression from the church's privileged position in the age of Christ's incarnation and cross.
The Blessings of the Messianic Era New Testament believers, Galatians 3:26 asserts, “are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” The word “children” here is literally “sons.” According to its context, God’s (human) “sons” are contrasted with unbelievers (e.g., Heb. 12:5-8) or the contrast is between the New Testament church as a mature son—and in which believers are “sons” (Gal. 4:5-6)—over against the Old Testament church as an immature child. The latter is the idea here (1-7)....