Originally posted by Skyward
Let me take a guess if I may. I would say the 'new' because they were written after Jesus was crucified, died, buried, risen and ascended. What took place in the Gospels was mostly when Jesus was alive but since they were written after His death which is considered AD they would be considered New Testament.
No, I think the four gospels are actually old covenant. The differences are many. Of course this involves "dispensationalism".
Before the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2...
People were still under law.
Believers had holy spirit "upon" them and it was "conditional".
Jesus came for the "lost house of Isreal"
To keep this short, these are only the beginning of the vast differences in the old and new covenants.
After the day of Pentecost in Acts2....
People(believers) were no longer under law.
Rom 10:4
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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Believers had holy spirit "in" them and is now "unconditional"
Col 1:27
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles:
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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Rom 11:29
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are
irrevocable.
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God now commands all men to repent. Not just Jews.
Acts 17:30
30 "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
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Eph 2:8-16
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
11 Therefore remember that you,
once Gentiles in the flesh-- who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands--
12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace,
who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
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