RE: The New Covenant
November 20, 2015 at 9:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2015 at 9:25 am by Hmmm?.)
(November 20, 2015 at 2:19 am)Aractus Wrote: Besides the command "love one another as I have loved you", he never says anything truly unique - and that saying is only found in John.
Even that was not truly unique (Lev 19:18, 19:34)
If Jesus had said anything openly that was truly unique his words would have long ago been forgotten (Deut 13)
Hence parables, hence Peter's shock when he was shown in a vision he was to go to the home of a gentile.
However, subtly, Jesus did present things truly unique...
(Mt 9:17, Mk 2:22, Lk 5:37) And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.... <<< this is yet to happen, the bottles have long since burst and the new wine has been spilt and soaked up by the dry infertile ground.