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One Covenant or many? Peter Sammons unpacks a key concept that so many get so wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our Saviour God is a covenantinitiating and a covenant-sustaining God. On that basis we praise Him every day, and receive full assurance that, in spite of the fact that we too often break our side of the relationship, God never breaks His.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why is all this important? There are numerous covenants in the Bible \u2013 the One New Man Bible lists some twenty in its glossary. There are four, however, that express God\u2019s over-arching saving purpose. It seems that some Christians are confused by this, and others who hold that the \u201cNew\u201d covenant somehow extinguishes the earlier covenants. Your author recalls receiving a stroppy email from a Christian bookshop manager who had taken exception to David Pawson\u2019s splendid \u201cDefending Christian Zionism<\/em>\u201d which explores the key covenants. My stroppy correspondent said \u201cthere\u2019s just one covenant \u2013 the new one !\u201d His view is probably widespread amongst a Christian generation that seems ill at ease with God\u2019s unfolding Salvation plan, and instead want to \u201ccut to the chase\u201d and make room only for their New Covenant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n One Covenant or many? Peter Sammons unpacks a key concept that so many get so wrong. Our Saviour God is a covenantinitiating and a covenant-sustaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Progressive revelation \u2026<\/h3>\n