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Friday, December 9, 2011

The history of Covenant Theology

Did you ever wonder how covenant theology came into being, what is Covenant Theology? In short, it's a theology that believes that all the promises to Israel have been passed to the church, that infants of believers should be sprinkled or poured (notice I didn't say Baptized) and admitted to membership of their "church".

And that as such they receive some of the benefits of the "church" as members (not the Lord's supper for instance), they also deny the rapture and the tribulation, believing instead that the church will eventually take over the world, and usher in the kingdom of Christ, and some even go so far that we as Christians should invoke old testament laws and penalties on all that brake any of God's laws. Although there is much wrong with this view I thought I would post a link that gave a short history of this view- READ HERE