A dear friend asked me that question. My answer was a resounding “yes!”
I also said “I prefer to call them an Old Covenant (Hebrew) and a New Covenant (Greek).
This is taught consistently in Jeremiah 31:31- 34 and Hebrews 8:7-23. It’s lengthy reading but worth it. After all, it’s God’s word that liberates us from false teaching (John 8:31-32).
The passages in Jeremiah and Hebrews give us a biblical basis for an Old Covenant and a New Covenant. All the Old Covenant law does is keep (lost) sinners condemned. Read the following:
“As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
“Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; ‘The poison of asps is under their lips’;
‘Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.’
‘Their feet are swift to shed blood; Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known.’
‘There is no fear of God before their eyes.’
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified (declared righteous) in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
(God’s Righteousness Comes Through Faith). “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
(Boasting Excluded).
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law” (Rom. 3:10-27).
Since God spoke those words, I can’t express their thoughts any better.
Agree?
Blessings!
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