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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
Praxeas... all others ... I would like to also ask:
are there .... is there ... requirement(s) to enter this New Covenant? What is it/are they?
Do these actions save us? How does New Birth enter this discussion of the New Covenant?
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I look at water baptism like OT circumcision. It was necessary to do. It did not necessarily bring you into covenant but it was a necessary sign or seal of the covenant.
Or maybe it was part of what brings one into covenant...even the NT speaks of saved and repentance, saved and confession, saved and baptism...I don't know how and it probably does not make much sense but maybe one is saved at faith...then saved at baptism etc etc.
Abraham had faith and was justified by faith but as James says we can see how he was justified by his works as well. God already know Abraham's heart...why allow him to go all the way to the top of Mt Moriah and nearly slay his son?
Anyone not circumcised was cut off from Israel.
This opens the door into what I read Dr Segraves once argue about the removal of the body of sins of the flesh.
Forgiveness or washing might be two pronged. There is God's heavenly accounting, but then there is our own conscious. Just some thoughts