Was that a Renewed Covenant or New Covenant

[strefanash]

Interesting, is it not?. The HR people are obsessed with getting the name of God right. But this kind of ritualistic obsession is at the core of pagan religion, particularly that of the ancient romans. If the priest got a detrail wrong he had to start the ritual all over again, I seem to recall reading somwhere.

And of course, to judge by these people, God is so incapable of seeing the hearts of man that He must throw a fit when we get some detail of ritual wrong. Maybe the details mattered in the Old Covenant, where a point had to be made, but now?

As to them reacting at hearing the name of Jesus as if it were a swear word, I do know that in my background that name was only used as a swear word. Perhaps we have here and understandable but ultimately irrational reacetion at an abuse, manifest as the all too human need to throw out the baby with the bath water.

Ultimately I view legalism as not only pagan but an expression of the very sins it seeks to fight (which of course makes me utterly pagan and a paragon of wickedness also )