A Better Covenant

John G. Reisinger of Sound of Grace Ministries has written a New Book in response to Dr. Richard Barcellos book In Defense of the Decalogue. Mr. Reisinger holds to a New Covenant Theological perspective while Dr. Barcellos is a Covenental Theologian. I have read two of Mr. Reisingers previous works: Tablets of Stone and Abrahams Four Seeds, both are excellent works. If you don’t what the issue is, simply stated Covenant guys typically calls us (I lean more towards a NCT perspective) Antinomians, which is a huge mistake because most NCT guys hold to a Lordship Salvation. The Law is the Law of Christ not the Decalogue a Covenental Document with Israel that was fulfilled in Christ and has “become obselete” as the writer of Hebrews says in Chapter 8 of that epistle (not to mention Paul calls it a “ministry of death” in 2 Corinthians 3). However,  search around the Sound of Grace website there are some pretty good articles but if you are interested in NCT Abrahams 4 Seeds would be a great place to start. Here is a description of the  new book:

This book has a two-fold purpose. First, it a response to a series of challenges to New Covenant Theology that Dr. Richard Barcellos offered in his book titled In Defense of the Decalogue. The challenges were made to anyone holding to New Covenant Theology in general and to me personally.

Dr. Barcellos’s book is written in an irenic spirit and will prove to be very helpful in the present discussion in Reformed circles on the relationship of the Old and New Covenants. I sincerely hope this response is just as irenic and helpful.

The second purpose of this book is to set forth what New Covenant Theology actually does believe in the eight areas where Barcellos states his objections.

The titles of both books tell the whole story. Barcellos is defending the view that the Decalogue, or “words of the covenant,” written on the stone tablets of the covenant (Exodus 34:27, 28) are the highest expression of the Law of God ever given. We believe the New Covenant revelation given to us by Christ and His apostles is a higher and more demanding law than anything given through Moses. Simply stated, this book asserts that Jesus is a new and higher Lawgiver who replaces Moses in exactly the same way he replaces Aaron as high priest. Barcellos insists that Christ is the greatest exegete of the Law of God given to Moses but in no sense gives any higher or more demanding law than Moses. We believe Christ is not only a Lawgiver but he is the full and final Lawgiver who supersedes and replaces all others.