THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES 2

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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (1)
I. ARE WE UNDER THE O.T. TODAY?
A. Gal. 323-25
B. Arguments saying we are under the O.T.

• Only the ceremonial law was taken away. Rom.
  71-7

• Jesus said he came not to destroy the law.
  Matt. 517-18 Acts 538-39

• The O.T. is still in effect today it is done
  away when someone is baptized. Gal. 318 Eph.
  214-15

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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (1)
I. ARE WE UNDER THE O.T. TODAY?
A. Gal. 323-25
B. Arguments saying we are under the O.T.
II. WHAT LAW ARE WE UNDER TODAY? Matt. 175 Acts
321-23 Jn. 1415 Eph. 33-4 1 Cor. 1437
921 Jn. 1248 Matt. 1618 Eph. 523
III. THE USE OF THE O.T. TODAY
A. To build hope, Josh. 2143-45 Isa. 53 Mic.
52 B. Divine basis of Christs mission, Jn.
539 Acts 321-23 1711-12 C. Teaches proper
attitude towards the word of God D. Gods way
will work, Isa. 558-9 Jer. 1023 E. The
possibility of apostasy, 1 Cor. 101-12 F. Gods
providence, Daniel, Esther
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The Belief That There is Only Covenant From the
time of Genisis, until the present and to the day
of eternity, God has interacted with man within a
single framework, the eternal (everlasting)
covenant of peace In opposition to the single
everlasting covenant, various teachers see an old
one of Moses and a new Christian one, differing
in word and content and diverse in purpose and
intent, together with contrasting laws of Moses
(Rom. 319) and of Christ (see Gal. 62).
(Stanley Paher, The Eternal Covenant of Peace,
pp. vii, ix, Nevada Publ.)
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WHY IS THIS BEING TAUGHT? The thrust of such
teaching is to promote his (Jim Puterbaugh, sw)
doctrine on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage.
He explains that whatever Moses taught on
Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage, Jesus also
taught....When (according to brother Puterbaugh)
those under Moses law divorced their wives and
both remarried new mates, although the divorce
was sin, God recognized the second marriage of
each and if they repented of their sin, they
would be forgiven and could remain in covenant
relationship with God while at the same time
keeping the second mate. So it is today under
Christ. In fact, to divorce the second mate and
return to the first would be sin, according to
brother Puterbaugh. (Jim McDonald summarizing Jim
Puterbaughs teaching from a series of tapes by
brother Puterbaugh on Marriage, Divorce and
Remarriage.)
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Stanley Paher "Appreciation of this great
biblical theme, as well as an understanding that
the great promises and comforting statements of
the Jewish prophets find fulfillment not only in
the messianic era but also in the Jewish period,
was gained in the early 1980s through studies
with James Puterbaugh" (The Eternal Covenant of
Peace, p. 286, my emph, sw).
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JIM PUTERBAUGH TEACHING THAT ADULTERY MEANS
COVENANT BREAKING Jim Puterbaugh on Mk.
1010-12 JP "So that's answering the question
of verse 2. What was the question? Is it
lawful for a man to divorce a wife?' And Jesus
says, When you divorce and marry some body else,
you commit adultery.' That's a sin. Now he
didn't say you're not married. He doesn't say
God doesn't recognize the marriage. He just said
when you did that you've sinned. That's all that
passage teaches. And there's nothing in the
grammar or the language that says that if you
continue to be married you continue to commit
adultery. It just says if you divorce and
remarry you've sinned."
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Question "In the New American Standard on verse
12, it says if she herself divorces her husband
and marries another man she is committing
adultery. Is that referring to the initial..."
(stops speaking as JP answers) JP "It's
referring to divorcing and marrying, that process
divorce and marrying commits adultery....Yeah,
the argument is made that because it's present
tense in Greek it's continuous, but that's not a
valid argument. Present tense doesn't prove
continuous action at all....It proves an action,
that's all. Context has to determine whether
it's continuous or point action." JP (later)
"I've preached this for fifteen years." JP
(later) "That's why Jesus said when you
divorce and marry another' - it's just an
understood thing, you divorce for the purpose of
marrying another, and when you do that you commit
adultery. In other words breaking this covenant
and making a new covenant is sin."(From tape of
Jim Puterbaugh on MDR, "3 of 3" transcribed by
Steve Wallace, all emph mine, sw)
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SOME FURTHER QUOTES FROM TAPES FROM BROTHER
PUTERBAUGH JP (later, speaking on 1 Cor. 7)
"What I am saying is that any interpretation on
any scripture in the Bible that precludes a man
or a woman having a wife sic - under any
circumstances - violates the teaching of the word
of God. Because Paul says marriage is God's
solution for not committing immorality." JP
"You see God never condemned marriage God
condemned divorce. God hates divorce, not
marriage. We've turned it around and said,
Well, okay, get a divorce if you can't get along
but then you can't marry anymore.'"
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Homer Hailey This universal moral law is the
expression of Gods own character and will,
determined in His purpose before creation as the
standard for creatures to be made in His image
(Eph. 14-5). That standard or law was made know
to a degree at the time of Adams sin and
following It was revealed more fully and
recorded in the Mosaic law then revealed in its
fullnessby the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant
under Christ (Homer Hailey, The Divorced and
Remarried Who Would Come to God, p. 35, Nevada
Publ.) Stanley Paher Various religious
thinkers see as many as seven distinct and often
unrelated covenants, expressed in scripture
between God and man.Contrary to such notions,
this chapter and those following develop a
doctrine of one eternal/everlasting covenant for
Gods people, initiated with the patriarch
Abraham and extending to the present and into the
future, forever and ever. This peace treaty
rests squarely upon Gods timeless moral law,
also called natural law. (Stanley Paher, The
Eternal Covenant of Peace, p. 93)
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
DIFFERENT COVENANTS OF GOD 1. Noah And,
behold, I establish my covenant with you (Gen.
98-17) ? 2 Pet. 35-7 2. Abraham The Lord
made a covenant with Abram (Gen. 1518) ?
Josh.2143-45 3. Israel The Lord our God made
a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not
this covenant with our fathers, but with us
(Deut. 52-3) 4. Abrahams spiritual seed (Gen.
123) I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah
(Heb. 88)
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
"Indeed, Jeremiah's famous new (renewed) cove-
nant of 3131-34, first prophesied in about 593
BC was realized about 60 years later when God's
people in the houses of Judah and Israel, to whom
the covenant oracle was specifically addressed,
returned from Babylonian exile. (Stanley Paher,
The Eternal Covenant, p. 78).
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"The New Covenant in Jeremiah 3131-34 refers to
God renewing his covenant first when the Jews
came out of Babylonian captivity. To put the law
in their hearts refers to Jer. 171. God's law
would replace the sin in their heart. There is no
refer- ence to the Old Law and the New Law" (Jim
Puterbaugh, Tape of "The Covenant", 2/6/ 95,
quotes last two slides via Jim McDonald,
Jeremiah 31 and the One Covenant Controversy,
Watchman Magazine, 2/00).
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• Hebrews 7-10 show contrast and distinction
  between two covenants, not "unity" and
  continuity.
• The priesthood has changed necessitating a change
  of law (Hb. 712).
• Christ is the surety and mediator of a better
  covenant, enacted upon better promises (Hb. 722
  86).
• He is the mediator of a New Covenant in which His
  death took place for the redemption of
  transgressions of those who were under the first
  (Hb. 915).
• The first covenant was dedicated with animal
  blood but the second was dedicated with the blood
  of God's Lamb, His Son (Hb. 918-20).
• Had the first covenant been faultless, no place
  would have been sought for the second (Hb. 87).
• The fact that he said new" made the first "old,"
  nigh unto vanishing away (Hb. 813).
• Christ "took" away the first, that he might
  establish the second (Hb. 109ff).

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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES

• Where is the record that Jeremiah 31 was
  fulfilled at the return from exile? Ezra 102ff
• Jeremiah 3134, I will forgive their iniquity,
  and their sins will I remember no more. Heb.
  101-3

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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
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THE LAW WAS NOT NAILED TO THE CROSS!! Wallace
Little "Colossians 211-14 deals in sin and
salvation. Contextually verse 14 must mean that
sin, NOT any law, was nailed to the cross. Verse
15 is transitional, leading to verses 16-17
showing the ceremonial aspect of Mosaical Law is
no longer binding." He also criticizes those who
say "God's universal moral law is a myth" (Gospel
Truths, May, 1997, page 14, via Tom ONeal,
Confusion on the Covenants, Watchman Magazine,
2/00, my emph, sw) Stanley Paher Similarly,
Jesus did not blot out any law on the cross but
removed its damning evidence. But nothing ever
happened to the law itself at the cross. (The
Eternal Covenant of Peace, p. 176) Jim
Puterbaugh Christ nailed no law to the cross.
He only nailed sin to the cross. (letter
circulated by Wallace Little, 1/96, via Jim
McDonald, A Review of Jim Puterbaughs Teaching
on the One Covenant, p. 4)
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS? Gal 319
Eph. 214-15
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Definition of the word covenant Thayer's
Greek-English Lexicon "A disposition,
arrangement, of any sort, which one wishes to be
valid...a compact, covenant...the ark of the
covenant or law, in which those tables were
deposited, Heb. 94...we find in the N.T. two
distinct covenants spoken of (Gal. 424), viz.
the Mosaic and the Christian...This covenant
Christ set up and ratified by undergoing death
(Heb. 1029) my blood by the shedding of which
the covenant is established (Mt. 2628)...By
metonymy of the contained for the container is
used in 2 Co. 314 of the sacred books of the
O.T. because in them the conditions and
principles of the older covenant were recorded"
(pg. 136,137). (all emph mine, sw)
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The Bibles Use of the Word Covenant 1.
Covenants of promise a. Gen. 911-15
Promise not to destroy world with a
flood. b. Gen. 1518 The land promise to
Abram. c. Ex. 64-5 Promise to Israel to
give the land (cp. Lev. 2642 Judges
21-2). d. Gen. 172-4 Abraham's descendants
to be multiplied. e. There were "promises" to
Abraham - not just one pro- mise (Gen.
121-3 Heb. 76 Gal. 316-17 Eph. 212).
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The Bibles Use of the Word Covenant 2.
Covenants of law a. Gen. 179-14
The covenant of circumcision. (It was both
a covenant law and a sign of a special
relationship, v. 11). b. Ex. 247 3427-28
The "book of the covenant," the "words of
the covenant, the Ten Commandments."(Cp.
Deut. 413 52,3 99,11,15) c. 1 Kgs.
89,21 The ark of the covenant contained the ten
commandments - not the spiritual promise.
d. 2 Kgs. 2321 The Book of the Covenant (or
of the Law, 2 Kgs. 228) included teaching
about the Passover. e. Psa. 7810 The
covenant was "His law."
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS DEATH, Ex. 248
Matt. 2628 Heb. 919-23, 16-17, 15
Where in the Old Testamentis there a type set
up for Jesus to die to institute as a testator a
last will and testament? Did a priest provide a
death in order to be the testator of a new will
and testament? You see, that context is not in
the Bible! (from a series of taped sermons by
Jim Puterbaugh on One Covenant, 1995, via Jim
McDonald, A Review of Jim Puterbaughs Teaching
on the One Covenant, p. 5)
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS DEATH, Ex. 248
Matt. 2628 Heb. 919-23, 16-17, 15
V. THE O.T. AND N.T. ARE NOT THE SAME!
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS DEATH, Ex. 248
Matt. 2628 Heb. 919-23, 16-17, 15
V. THE O.T. AND N.T. ARE NOT THE SAME!
VI. CONSEQUENCES, 1 Cor. 72 Rom. 72-3
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"The Bible never precisely condemns polygamy.
It's like slavery. God allowed slavery in the
law of Moses and then slavery just disappears
when we get over into Christian- ity...but is
there a verse that says slavery is immoral?
...Even in Philemon Paul doesn't condemn slavery.
And that's the way I look at the concubines or
polygamy, that they do not precisely violate
moral law as God reveals it but once you have
Christianity, it just seems to disappear, like
slavery does...What about Abraham? He had a wife
and a concubine under the universal, moral law,
as it was. Was he in sin, then? He was under the
universal, original law and was he in sin? I
think we'd all have to say that he, that we
couldn't say he was in a state of sin that was
going to keep him from going to heaven, at
least...that's the only way I know how to deal
with it...I just confess to you that it is a
struggle, that it is a problem."(Puterbaugh, MDR
tapes, via McDonald, ibid., p. 8, my emph, sw)
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THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 3131-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVO- CATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS DEATH, Ex. 248
Matt. 2628 Heb. 919-23, 16-17, 15
V. THE O.T. AND N.T. ARE NOT THE SAME!
VI. CONSEQUENCES, 1 Cor. 72 Rom. 72-3