Hi and see you reply , so how can a person by SAVED under the NEW COVENANT TODAY ??
Paul was saved in the same manner as are all believers: faith granted by God in the object of our faith, our Lord Jesus Christ, by the efficacious quickening power of the Holy Spirit.
The New Covenant is an administration of the CoG wherein the foreshadows and promises of the past are now realized in Our Lord. The NC has no dependencies upon uncertain conditions, but rather the realized satisfaction and suretyship of Jesus Christ.
New Covenant administration represents the ultimate expression of God’s single eternal Covenant of Grace (Hebrews 13:20). That said, the road was the same on which believers in the Old and the New Testaments walked, but the light in which they walked was different. So in a sense we can say that those experiencing the New Covenant have better promises (Hebrews 8:6), a better sacrifice (Hebrews 9:23), a better High Priest with a better sanctuary (Hebrews 7:26-8:13), and a better hope than what was found in the former explicit OT expressions of the Covenant of Grace.
When I speak of the New Covenant, I do not mean what is known as New Covenant Theology (NCT) as you are likely trying to argue. NCT differs from Covenant Theology in denying the covenants of works, grace, and redemption, and in asserting the temporary nature of the Mosaic Law.
Specific differences between New Covenant Theology (NCT) and Covenant Theology (CT) include:
1. Denial of the Covenant of Works
2. Denial of the Covenant of Grace
3. NCT's view of the relations between the historic covenant arrangements of redemptive history are quite dispensational. There is no appreciation for the unity of the Covenant of Grace, or the fact that we belong to one and the same covenant as Abraham.
4. Affirmation of the unity of the Mosaic Law, i.e., the Mosaic Law as a unit that cannot be divided, Thus, NCT rejects a functional distinction between moral, civil, and ceremonial aspects of the Mosaic Law.
5. Affirmation of the expiration of the Mosaic Law which is no longer operative for Christians today
6. Denies the threefold categorization of Biblical law: moral, ceremonial, and civil.
7. Teaching that Christians are under only the Law of Christ, i.e., commands given by Christ and His Apostles
8. Affirmation that the church began at Pentecost, that there is no church in the Old Testament, but only the elect of Israel. NCT sees the saints of the OT as being added to the church after it's built.
9. Rejection of the normative aspect of the 4th commandment wherein "Let no one judge you," of Col.2:16, is read as the equivalent of "the 4th Commandment is obsolete."
10. Deny the indwelling of the Spirit of believers in the OT was not the same as in the NT (as Jesus would send the comforter).
By the way, you completely ignored the substance of my previous post related to just thinking the Gospel is mere incantations of sentences without addressing the presuppositions contained therein.
AMR