Exegesis Questions And Answers With Pastor Cyril

That is a very brilliant, and interesting, question. Let me start by saying that part of our confusion by the phrase [sic] ‘New Testament’ and ‘Old Testament’ is how the scriptures have been presented to us; the English Bible has been divided into two. So we have the Old Testament scriptures and we have the New Testament scriptures. The Old Testament scriptures are from Genesis to Malachi; and the New Testament scriptures, from Matthew to Revelation.  And so, sometimes, in discussing the Old Covenant and New Covenant, or the Old Testament and the New Testament, we need to be very clear, we need to lay some groundwork. Now what you and I call the Old Testament really is another, is [sic] a phrase that is used to describe, or is an alternative, for the Old Covenant. You can say Old Testament or Old Covenant, or you can say New Testament or New Covenant.  And what we refer to as the Old Covenant is actually the covenant that God [?] with the children of Israel at Mount Sinai about three months after th