The New Covenant

[jenny1972]

So I was reading my Bible, as I do, and I came across a passage in Jeremiah I'd like to share:


‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord,
    ‘when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
    I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband to them,’
        declares the Lord.
‘This is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,’ declares the Lord.
‘I will put my law in their minds
    and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbour,
    or say to one another, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,’
        declares the Lord.
‘For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more.’

                                                              -Jeremiah 31:31-34

As a Christian I'd read this passage before - but never in context. This passage describes, in detail, what the New Covenant is.

It's a covenant between God and Israel/Judah. It is NOT a covenant between God and non-Jews.

It's an unconditional covenant - it doesn't require obedience or belief or any action on behalf of the Jews to receive the knowledge of God and forgiveness from God.

It is made clear this covenant wholly replaces the Mosaic covenant.

So how did Christians get it so wrong? They believe the New Covenant is one made between God and all people through Jesus Christ as the mediator. They believe forgiveness has to be earned in some way (either through repentance, by faith, or by good works depending on the denomination). And they believe in the authority of clergy to teach about God - but God says in this covenant that no one will have to teach about him because he will personally tell all the Jews himself.

Want to explain to every one the bold by me in the scripture you posted, that's an important part of the passages, tell us when will it begin? It certainly hasn't yet because many Jews and some who've been on this forum do not believe in God and the passage says all will know Him.

GC

christians claim that jesus was this "new covenant" but the new covenent prophesied in the old testament is only about the jews not all of humanity , christianity included gentiles also all of humanity, but thats not what the OT said