07-25-2023, 10:44 PM
(07-25-2023, 10:18 PM)Blue Bird Wrote: Sometimes I try to travel time. I don't understand what you understood but I think it's not what I tryed to say. Of course the convenant is in effect but it was new at the time.
If people would have followed the saying that new things are bad, they would judge that the new convenant at Mount Sinai was certainly bad.
I can imagine some hardliners saying: Hey, that's not what our father Abraham received! All this stuff with the laws etc., it can't be from God! The covenant with Abraham was so simple, what is this complicated law about?
Okay! Now I understand what you are saying, thanks for the clarification Blue Bird.
So that saying, what is good is not new and what is new is not good, applies to the Hebrew bible after it was complete. I don't think the saying started 1000's of years ago, probably just recently.
It doesn't apply to what happened in the days of the Hebrew bible, it applies after it was codified by the Great Assembly.
Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well.
What you wrote is certainly true, how they would perceive "new" things if that saying was of that time.