ISOT on Covenant-God, not Contract-God
[We should see our relationship with God not] in terms of a legalistic contract between humanity and God rather than a gracious covenant. Whereas a covenant is unconditional, Torrance explained, a contract is a legal relationship and has mutual conditions. ‘First and foremost, the whole federal scheme is built upon the deep-seated confusion between a covenant and a contract, a failure to recognize that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is a Covenant-God and not a contract God.’
Here’s the Torrance reference:
James B. Torrance, ‘Covenant or Contract? A Study of the Theological Background of Worship in Seventeenth Century Scotland’, Scottish Journal of Theology 23 (1970), p.66.
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