If I were a serious advocate of covenant theology, determined to put a stop to new-covenant theology, 1 I would set up an ‘automatic correct’ on my computer, one which would enable me, by means of a single keystroke, to enter the word ‘antinomianism’ in any manuscript on which I might be working. I am sure I would find myself using the word so often when writing against new-covenant theology, that I would wonder however I got by without the ‘automatic correct’! I say this because, it seems, whenever a covenant theologian tackles any new-covenant work, as long as he can slap the sticker ‘antinomianism’ on it, and dismiss the writer as an ‘antinomian’, he successfully hits the ball into the long grass. Out of sight, out of mind! Very nice, too! No need for further thought, no more consideration, no serious weighing of Scripture: new-covenant teaching is ‘antinomianism’, and that’s bad! End of story! |