A Brief Survey of the Relations of the Two Covanents

As most anybody who has given the Christian Bible even a cursory study knows, it is not only divided into 73 (or 66) books, it also is seperated into two Covanents, or Testaments: the Old and the New.

The Old Testament is also called the Hebrew Scriptures. It is not, in fact, represented by one Covanent but by five. The first is between God and Adam and Eve, and involves couples. The second is with Noah, moving to families. Abraham is the third, involving a people. The fourth is with Moses and a Nation, and the fifth is with David, bringing about a Kingdom.

Fundamentally though, the Covanent of the Old Testament is the one with Abraham that brought about the Jewish people as God's Chosen People and all the stories of the Hebrew Scriptures center on that.

The New Testament is centered on one Covanent, the "new and everlasting covanent" Jesus brings about through the Last Supper and his Death. This is, in Christian understanding, simply the next (or final) step in the long line of covanents which start back with the very act of creation.

I'll have more in the next post about the two Testaments and their relation to each other.