The Place of the Law

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:17 To Dr. Schilder, the covenant of grace was forensic, a matter of law. He saw it as being founded on the fact that children of believing parents are set before the promises of God, but only and always in connection with God's legal demands, warnings, and threats, which are related to the promises conditionally. Every child born from a circumcised father was -- even as any baptized child today is -- to be raised...