God's Kingdom through God's Covenants Quotes

“Biblical theology must follow a method that reads the Bible on its own terms, following the Bible’s own internal contours and shape, in order to discover God’s unified plan as it is disclosed to us over time.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“essential to the canonical horizon of biblical interpretation is the continuity between the promises of God and his fulfillment of those promises”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“God wants each and every individual person to think first of the inalienable rights of the other person and not first about their own inalienable rights.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“Because Christ is the last Adam and the true Israel, the true and literal seed of Abraham (Gal. 3:16), all of God’s promises to Israel (which includes the nations) are fulfilled in Christ and inaugurated in the church. God has not replaced Israel by the church; instead, he has brought Israel’s role to its fulfillment in Christ and to Christ’s people.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“so just as Adam was to fulfill his mandate by devoting himself to worship as a priest in the garden sanctuary, so Israel as a new Adam is to fulfill her mandate by devoting herself to worship as a priest in the tabernacle, and later the temple.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“The church does not confer authority upon this book because she desires it to be God’s Word; rather, Scripture itself testifies that it is God’s authoritative Word, written through the agency of human authors, and that it is the product of the sovereign-personal “God who is there” and from “the God who is not silent.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology