S5.E9. Q.5. Regarding Religion and Covenants

About this episode

The episode discusses the fundamental differences between religion and life in the context of Biblical covenants.

One cannot really understand Biblical covenants, and especially the distinction between to Old Testament covenant and the New Testament covenant, without first clearly understanding the difference between two fundamental truths that may serve as the foundation for all covenants; and those are the principle of ‘ religion’ and the principle of ‘ life .’ Quite simply, religion is a bondage to a system of Divine worship, while life is spontaneous and the freedom to experience Divine fellowship; religion is what you ‘do’, life is what you ‘are;’ Why is it so important to understand this distinction? It is because God and man covenants and their promises are given and fulfilled upon the basis religion or life; and that the world as a whole has a propensity for religion while knowing little of the principle of life.

People in this episode

Host: Dan DeVitis

Topics covered

• Biblical covenants
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• religion
• life
• Divine worship
• Divine fellowship

Keywords

• covenants
• religion
• life
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Divine worship
• Divine fellowship

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Old Testament, New Testament

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