C. Matthew McMahon
Christian Preacher
Originally posted by pastorway
If His blood was not shed for you, then you are not in the New Covenant. It is the "New Covenant in My blood, which is shed for you."
Unless you believe that the blood of Christ was shed for the non-elect. Then, and only then, can unbelievers have any part in the New Covenant.
Do you get it already, or not yet?
Phillip - would you say that His blood was shed for Moses? or Abraham? or Noah? Or not?
It seems you are going to have a problem with salvation in general if you hold to what you said.
Moses gets to heaven by Christ's blood. If he does not, then you would have to be a Ryrie or Larkin kind of dispensationist who thinks that God saves in different ways at differnt times. If Moses IS saved by Christ's blood, then is Moses in the New Covenant? If Moses is not in the New Covenant, is Christ's blood only in the New Covenant as your statement says, or does it expand past the NC? Because we know Moses was in the Old Siniatic covenant. Is Christ the Mediator by His blood of that covenant or only the New? If it doesn't apply tot he old covenant, then what saved Moses in the OT if it were not the blood of Christ?
I think in general, Christians today seem to have a heard time with reconciling salvific ideas around the blood of Christ and how it applies to those in the OT/NT. That is what makes your statement thoroughly confusing to me.