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May 9, 2006
Anabaptist historical position on the Old Testament
Anabaptists stressed the utter discontinuity rather than continuity of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Hodge says, “The Anabaptists not only spoke in very disparaging terms of the old economy and of the state of the Jews under that dispensation, but it was necessary to their peculiar system, that they should deny that the covenant made with Abraham included the covenant of grace.”[41] In this position the Anabaptists had a strong affinity with the Socinians who dictated the same view of the Old Testament in order to remove the doctrine that a gospel Church, substantially identical with that of the New Testament, existed in the Old Testament with its infant church members.[42] Thus, the Anabaptists had little use for the Old Testament. VanGemeren says, “They judged it to be inferior to the Gospel.”[43] This shaped both their conceptions of the church and their conceptions of membership in the church.
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Posted by thdyck on May 9, 2006
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